In patients presenting with acute low back pain or radicular symptoms, do you prescribe a short course of oral steroids?

When do you consider prescribing a short course of oral steroids for acute low back pain?

• If there are also radicular symptoms
• If there are no red flag symptoms
• If the patient has no co-morbid conditions exacerbated by steroids (i.e., diabetes)
• I would rarely, if ever, do this
• Other