Caudal Epidural Steroid Injections for Low Back Pain/Sciatic Lumbar Pain (FIA1)

University of Ioannina

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Disability; Pain

Treatments: Procedure: caudal epidural steroid injection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01407913

191/2010

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study hypothesis is that caudal epidural steroid injections provides short term relief to patients with persistent low back pain and sciatica due degenerative disc disease or lumbar spinal stenosis. Patients will be evaluated wiht clinical examination and radiological examinations before injections. They will be followed up with questionnaires on pain and disability up to 6 months postinjection.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• low back pain and sciatica due to lumbar disc herniation or lumbar spinals stenosis

Exclusion criteria

• infection, cancer, allergy to steroids or anesthetic, non controlled diabetes or hypertension, clotting disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)