Back Pain: Medications

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Anesthetic or corticosteroid injections for low back pain
Article
02/06/08, Healthwise
Local anesthesia is believed to break the cycle of pain that can cause you to become less physically active. Muscles that are not being exercised are more easily injured, so the irritated and injured muscles can cause more pain and spasm
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Ketorolac
Drug
09/11/08, Healthwise
This medicine can increase your risk of life-threatening heart or circulation problems, including heart attack or stroke. This risk will increase the longer you use ketorolac. Do not use this medicine just before or after having heart bypass surgery
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Anticonvulsants for chronic low back pain
Article
02/06/08, Healthwise
Anticonvulsants are used to help control or prevent abnormal increases in brain electrical activity.
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Muscle relaxants for a herniated disc
Article
07/21/08, Healthwise
Muscle relaxant medicines relax muscles and may help reduce pain in people who have muscle spasms. The muscle-relaxing effects of these medicines are most likely the result of their ability to depress the central nervous system. They
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Infliximab for ankylosing spondylitis
Article
05/18/07, Healthwise
Infliximab can help reduce the symptoms and slow the progression of ankylosing spondylitis. Infliximab is an immunosuppressive medicine, which means that it reduces the activity in the body's immune system. Infliximab reduces the effe
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Muscle relaxants
Article
02/06/08, Healthwise
The muscle-relaxing effects of these medicines are most likely the result of their ability to depress the central nervous system. They are also called sedatives.
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Opioids for spinal stenosis
Article
02/21/08, Healthwise
Opioids are prescription narcotic medicines that are similar to pain-relieving substances naturally produced by the body (endorphins). Opioids suppress your perception of pain by reducing the number of pain signals sent by the nervou
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Epidural steroid injections for lumbar spinal stenosis
Article
02/21/08, Healthwise
An epidural steroid injection (ESI) is a combination of a corticosteroid with a local anesthetic pain relief medicine. Corticosteroids are strong anti-inflammatory medicines used to relieve pain. The local anesthetic medicine helps gi
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Lumbar Spinal Stenosis - Medications
Article
02/21/08, Healthwise
Treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis is done to relieve pain, numbness, and weakness in the legs and improve your ability to function and your quality of life. Medicine may be used to relieve the pain and inflammation caused by spinal
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Acetaminophen for low back pain
Article
02/06/08, Healthwise
Acetaminophen is an analgesic, or pain reliever. Acetaminophen does not reduce inflammation, as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) do. Whether reducing inflammation helps people with low back pain is not known.
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