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Description

Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation Method

Successful completion of this activity includes reading the entire article and successfully completing the post-quiz and an evaluation form.

Getting the Most out of the Activity

As you prepare to participate in this activity, please reflect on your practice and your patients and identify clinical challenges you hope to have addressed.

While participating in the training, identify ways you can use newly acquired knowledge, strategies, and skills to enhance patient outcomes and your own professional development.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

  1. Explain the current literature regarding the efficacy of lumbar epidural injections for low back pain.
  2. Understand the effect that approach may have on the efficacy of epidural injections.
  3. Describe variables in injected medications and how they affect the efficacy of lumbar epidural injections.
  4. Increase awareness about the challenges that exist in studying epidural injection efficacy for low back pain.

Disclosures

The authors and all staff in a position to control the content of this CME activity have disclosed that they and their spouses/life partners (if any) have no financial relationships with, or financial interests in, any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Price: $49.00

Credits:

  • ACCME 1.5 CME

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Planner
Professions: Physician
Test Code: TPM0316
Published: March 2016
Expires: 1/1/2026
Sources: Topics in Pain Management
Required Passing Score: 7/10 (70%)
Authors: Michael Kiritsy, BS, and Jason W. Siefferman, MD
Categories: Pain Management , Spine
Specialties: Pain Management
Topics: Epidural Injection , Low Back Pain , Pain Management , Steroids