“…Despite the widespread availability of epidural steroid injections, little is known about the factors predicting their success. Studies investigating the predictors of lumbar epidural steroid injections have shown conflicting results [9,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28]. If the diagnostic information can be used to predict treatment response, it can facilitate the treatment plan.…”