Tag: Pain treatment

According to Healthgrades.com, approximately 10% of people experience trigger points, which are painful muscle knots. For long-lasting relief from these trigger points, healthcare providers often use a corticosteroid, along with a local anesthetic, in a trigger point injection.

Neridronate, an aminobisphosphonate, is licensed in Italy for treating conditions like Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) [1.5.1]. So, is neridronate available in the US? The short answer is no, it is not currently approved by the FDA [1.2.1, 1.3.1].

According to a 2015 multicenter randomized study published in *The BMJ*, outcomes for lumbosacral radicular pain were similar at three months for both oral gabapentin and epidural steroid injections. This finding challenges the notion of one treatment being inherently superior, asking the critical question: is gabapentin better than epidural steroid injections?