Journal of manipulative and physiological therapeutics
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J Manipulative Physiol Ther · Nov 1994
Case ReportsManipulation under anesthesia combined with epidural steroid injection.
To demonstrate the benefit of cooperation between medical and chiropractic specialists and the usefulness of combining chiropractic and epidural injection in particular cases of back pain. ⋯ Cooperation between medical and chiropractic specialists is to be encouraged. These cases demonstrate cooperation between an anesthesiologist and a chiropractor. By using a single treatment of manipulation under epidural anesthesia/epidural steroid followed by continued chiropractic, we were able to lead our patients out of therapeutic dead ends and deal with the dilemma of a patient in too much pain to tolerate an initial chiropractic treatment.