Corticosteroids for Low Back Pain Get a Yellow Recommendation

Corticosteroids for low back pain gets a yellow recommendation, meaning there are unclear benefits. Steroids caused a statistically significant improvement in pain compared to placebo for these patients. But the improvement was modest, with patients reporting a 0.5 point improvement in pain on a scale of 0 to 10. Greena: It's hard to weigh the moderate benefit against understudied harms.