Is the Efficacy of Epidural Steroid Injections Related to the Different Volume Injections?

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study was aimed to investigate the impact of using different epidural volumes.

Patients with acute discogenic pain were included in the study.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Neslihan Uztüre
• Collaborator: University of Gaziantep
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Triamcinolone; Triamcinolone Acetonide; Triamcinolone diacetate; Triamcinolone hexacetonide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• acute discogenic pain with less than three months duration not responding to other modalities of conservative management [NSAIDs, physiotherapy, bracing, etc.],

• radiological disc bulging accompanying unilateral root impingement symptoms,

• an Oswestry daily activity score more than 20 percent, and

• resistance to treatment.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with bilateral root impingement symptoms, neurological deficits, and/or history of previous lumbar disc surgery, severe cardiac, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, renal diseases, glaucoma, urinary retention, and/or known allergy to the drugs used in the study were excluded from the study.