A comparison of the effects and complications of transforaminal Triamcinolone and Ketorolac in radicular low back pain.
- Conditions
- chronic low back pain.low back pain
- Registration Number
- IRCT201708157984N27
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice Chancellor for Research and Technology of Iran University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 30
Age 20-70 years;
Pain that has not responded to treatment for at least 6 weeks;
Evidence of Nerve root involvement as disc bulging and/or foraminal stenosis in CT/MRI;
VAS > 4;
ASA class I, II;
Patients’ Informed consent;
Exclusion criteria:
Patients with coagulopathy;
Infection in injection site as Herpetic diseases;
Anatomical and congenital spine deformity as severe scoliosis;
Surgical history instrument insertion;
Psychological severe disorders;
History of harmful reaction to local anesthetic and steroid;
Patients with motor deficit or progressive neural defect;
Cancer;
Neural foramen radiological access difficulty;
Substance abuse;
HIV;
Acute trauma;
Cauda Equina syndrome;
More than 3 level abnormalities;
Absence of radicular pain;
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ow back pain. Timepoint: Before injection,two weeks,1,3 and 6 month after intervention. Method of measurement: pain score measured with visual analogue scale in Questionnaire.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Oswestry Disability Index questionnaire (ODI) and straight leg raising test (SLR), complications. Timepoint: Before injection, two weeks, 1,3 and 6 moth after intervention. Method of measurement: Questionnaire.