Low back pain & Drugs/Treatments

Treatment largely depends on pain classification and typically begins with self-care and pharmacotherapy, combined with non-pharmacological methods such as physical therapies and psychological treatments for appropriate patients.

For refractory low back pain, a wide range of non-surgical and surgical treatment options are available for carefully selected patients:

• Non-surgical treatments:

  
  
  • Epidural steroid injections and spinal cord stimulation for neuropathic pain
  
  
  • Radiofrequency ablation and intra-articular steroid injections for mechanical pain
  
  
  
  



• Surgical treatments:

  
  
  • Decompression for neuropathic pain
  
  
  • Disc replacement and fusion for mechanical causes
  
  
  
  

Most treatment options address only single, solitary causes. Given the complex natur…