A randomised double blind trial to study the effectiveness and success rate of USG versus fluoroscopy(X-ray) guided caudal epidural steroid injections in adult patients with more than 3 months of radicular lower back pai
Phase 4
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: M472- Other spondylosis with radiculopathy
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2024/06/069354
- Lead Sponsor
- il
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
1.Adult patients 18 years of age
2.Patients with chronic radicular lower back pain (not responding to conservative treatment like physical therapy, muscle relaxant drugs, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for 6 weeks)
3.Patients who are not candidates for surgical intervention.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients with
Local or systemic infection.
History of allergy to contrast.
Coagulopathy or anticoagulant therapy.
Progressive neurological deficit, motor weakness, sensory loss, cauda equina syndrome, bowel & bladder dysfunction.
Low back pain with traumatic aetiology, chronic nonradicular lower back pain.
Pregnant females.
Patients who refused to participate in the study
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To compare the pain relief at 1 month and procedure time with ultrasound versus fluoroscopy-guided caudal epidural steroid injections.Timepoint: 1 month
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The following outcome measures will be measured <br/ ><br>A)Pain relief in patients will be measured using NRS <br/ ><br>B)Improvement in disability index in patients will be measured using the ODI <br/ ><br>C) For measuring improvement in quality of life will be using the SF-12 score <br/ ><br>D)For measuring patient satisfaction will be using the Likert scale <br/ ><br>E) Adverse reactions if any e.g., facial flushing, infection etc. will be noted and reportedTimepoint: At 2 weeks, 1 month and 3 months