please can you tell me what is perispinal etanercept treatment ?
Dr. George Best
3 days ago
Paraspinal etanercept therapy is new type of anti-inflammatory injection that has a different mechanism of inflammation suppression than other types of anti-inflammatories. It has been touted by its developers as a breakthrough in the treatment of sciatica and back pain as well as for other inflammatory conditions. It may very well be more effective for some patients than oral anti-inflammatories and steroid drug injections, but it is far from 100% effective and from what I have seen so far it is probably a marginal improvement over existing anti-inflammatory treatments, at best.
It also should be kept in mind that this treatment is strictly an anti-inflammatory. In the case of large disc herniations or ruptures, or when there is some other cause for pain other than just inflammatory swelling, the results are not likely to be all that dramatic.
It is still quite new and it may prove to live up to the manufacturer’s hype, but so far the independent reports on it I’ve seen have been less than exciting.
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DINESH NARANG
3 days ago
please can you tell me what is perispinal etanercept treatment ?
Dr. George Best
3 days ago
Paraspinal etanercept therapy is new type of anti-inflammatory injection that has a different mechanism of inflammation suppression than other types of anti-inflammatories. It has been touted by its developers as a breakthrough in the treatment of sciatica and back pain as well as for other inflammatory conditions. It may very well be more effective for some patients than oral anti-inflammatories and steroid drug injections, but it is far from 100% effective and from what I have seen so far it is probably a marginal improvement over existing anti-inflammatory treatments, at best.
It also should be kept in mind that this treatment is strictly an anti-inflammatory. In the case of large disc herniations or ruptures, or when there is some other cause for pain other than just inflammatory swelling, the results are not likely to be all that dramatic.
It is still quite new and it may prove to live up to the manufacturer’s hype, but so far the independent reports on it I’ve seen have been less than exciting.