system that transports blood from the right ventricle to the lungs and back to the left atrium. Systemic Vessels. system that carries blood from the left ventricle to the tissues in all parts of the body and then returns the blood to the right atrium. arterioles.
Medicine and Healthcare. The short answer is yes. An epidural can mean an epidural anesthetic for child birth or surgery or an epidural steroid injection to treat back pain. Either way, the process of giving the shot in that area can occasionally cause pain. If the back pain was there before the shot, the shot was probably not involved.
Epidural Steroid Injection. Epidural steroid injections are most commonly used in situations of radicular pain, which is a radiating pain that is transmitted away from the spine by an irritated spinal nerve. Irritation of a spinal nerve in the low back (lumbar radiculopathy) causes pain that goes down the leg. Epidural injections are also used to treat nerve compression in the neck (cervical spine), referred to as cervical radiculopathy, which causes pain.