Efficacy of epidural steroid injection of patients with back pain dependant to lombar  disc hernia; prospective, clinical study : Lomber disk hernisine bağlı bel ağrılı hastalarda epidural steroid enjeksiyonun etkinliği; prospektif, klinik çalışma

Ömer Faruk Şavluk; Mesut Erbaş

doi:10.5455/GMJ-30-2012-110

Authors

Ömer Faruk Şavluk Yahyalı Devlet Hastanesi, Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Kliniği,Yahyalı, Kayseri
Mesut Erbaş Bünyan Devlet Hastanesi, Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Kliniği, Bünyan, Kayseri

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5455/GMJ-30-2012-110

Keywords:

Back pain, flat leg raising test, lumbar epidural steroid, VAS

Abstract

It is aimed to evaluate of the effectiveness of the application of epidural steroid injection(ESE) in patients with lumbar disc herniation (LDH) in this study. Between November 2010- December 2011 patients applied Yahyalı State Hospital Algology Clinic withlow back pain for at least 3 months was evaluated in a prospective study. Application of the lumbar epidural steroid injection was planned for 150 patients. visual analogue scale (VAS) were used for scoring pain of patients. Besides, patients with hand-finger floor distance and the degree of straight leg raising were evaluated before and after ESE injection. Ages of patients were between 27- 65 years old, of all patients 67 were men (44,7%), 83 were women (%55,3). Before and after treatment in VAS, direct leg increase, hand- finger ground distance of patients were found to be significantly different between measurements one by one (p=0,0037, p=0,0053, p=0,0062). Epidural steroid administration can provide earlier symptomatic treatment for the patients suffering from low back pain with lumbar disc herniation who did not respond to conservative treatment.

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