Results of epidural injection of local anaesthetic and corticosteroid in patients with lumbosciatic pain.

Epidural steroid therapy is one of the useful conservative modalities of treatment of low back pain with sciatica. Epidural injection of a mixture of 80 mg (2 ml) of methylprednisolone, 25 ml of normal saline and 10 ml of 2% lignocaine hydrochloride through sacral route produced excellent to good results in 83% of patients of low back pain with sciatica with subacute symptoms of less than 3 months duration, when evaluated after 3 months of injection. When evaluated after one year of injection the success rate came down to 64.8%.