RCT ON CAUDAL EPIDURAL STEROID INJECTION AND NCV OUTCOME IN LUMBOSACRAL RADICULOPATHY
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: G55- Nerve root and plexus compressionsin diseases classified elsewhere
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/05/033709
- Lead Sponsor
- AIIMS Raipur
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
1: Patients with lower back pain with unilateral or bilateral radiculopathy of minimum one monthâ??s duration.
2: Physical examination should show radicular irritation or abnormalities in the sensory, motor, and/or reflex of the lower lumbar or upper sacral nerve root distribution
2: Both sex and all adults (above 18 years) will be included
3: Patients with MRI findings of disc protrusion or disc bulge at multiple levels of lumbosacral spine showing nerve impingement of lower lumbar or upper sacral roots with or without canal stenosis.
1: Patients with severe psychiatric illness or any disease precluding prone positioning for the injection procedure.
2: Patients with active infections or otherwise severely ill with any co morbid condition.
3: Patients with neurological involvement that mandates immediate surgical interventions like cauda equina symptoms or bladder bowel incontinence.
4: Patients having bleeding disorders and with history of allergy to local anesthetics.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1.Numerical rating scale <br/ ><br>2.Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability IndexTimepoint: Two weeks
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method CV of lower extremities ( including CMAP, f wave of common peroneal, posterior tibial nerve and h reflex)Timepoint: Two weeks