No matter how they welcome a child into the world, birthing parents are warriors, but it doesn't hurt to get a little help from modern medicine. In fact, the latest research shows that 71 percent of ...

The entire birthing process is a tough one but modern medicine has tried to ease it a bit. A majority of pregnant women opt for epidurals or spinal anesthesia. If you have been through the process, ...

Placement of a catheter in the lumbar epidural space allows for the administration of analgesic and local anesthetic agents to a series of dorsal- and ventral-nerve roots that exit the spinal cord and ...

Having an epidural is not really painful. Patients report that it feels “strange”, like pressure in the back. The most sensitive part is the skin, which the anaesthetist first numbs by injecting a ...

How Does an Epidural Work? You may have heard of the epidural – the pain-relieving anesthesia that some pregnant women get when they’re giving birth. But it has other uses, too. This procedure isn’t ...