Low Back Pain, Epidural Steroid Injections and Meningitis

By |2020-04-09T11:34:57-04:00October 17th, 2012|Back Pain, Chiropractic, News and Events|Comments Off on Low Back Pain, Epidural Steroid Injections and Meningitis

The national news has not been good of late for those who have received a common treatment for acute low back pain. A tainted batch of medication has resulted in 15 deaths to date with more than 200 people falling prey to this potentially deadly form of fungal meningitis. It is estimated that at least 14,000 people are now known to have received these contaminated epidural injections. Patients in states as close as Tennessee and Virginia have now been confirmed as having [...]