Many, especially older patients, suffer from back pain due to spinal canal stenosis. Classically, these patients all too often receive pain therapy in the form of epidural infiltration therapy ( PRIT = peripheral radial infiltration therapy, Rasz catheter , etc.).

A group of researchers from Philadelphia, USA has now discovered that the group of patients who had received such an injection therapy prior to a stenosis operation had a significantly poorer surgical result than the group of patients who were never infiltrated or received injection therapy.

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