Does lumber joint injections help scheuermanns disease?

Answer 1

It will do nothing to help correct the spine at all. It will help with the pain or the uncomfortable feeling that you feel on a daily basis. It may alleviate sleepless that comes from the pain. There are a couple of problems. There will come a day when you will stop having the injections and the pain will be back. The other problem is these injection do go into your spine. There is always the risk that you could have some seriousness which include never walking again. Think of it in this way. Anyone that goes into surgery runs the chance of severe consequences including death. The best surgeon in the world has this possibility even if he doesn't do anything wrong. You have to decide what you what and ask what the side effects are and all of them. Hope that this helps