Do Lower Spine Injections Improve Outcomes for Lower Back Pain Patients

University of Florida

Status: Completed

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Observation of biomechanical effects post injection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01381224

629-2010

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this project is to determine the effect of lower back injections on select biomechanical outcomes, walking patterns, lower back flexibility and balance.

Full description

The purpose of this project is to determine the effect of lumbar injections on select biomechanics parameters; walking pattern, lumbar flexibility and balance. The surveys will help assess the patient's sense of functional ability and feeling of wellness compared with low back pain scores. The long terms goals of this project will be to elucidate the mechanism of action of injections and to improve identification of patients that are likely to benefit from injection therapy

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosis of lumbar spine stenosis
• receiving lumbar epidural injection
• age 18-90 years
• BMI <35kg/m2
• walking unaided

Exclusion criteria

• age <18 or >90 years
• BMI >35 kg/m2
• severely impaired intellectual capacity
• medications that could impact balance
• dementia, or other neurodegenerative diseases that would preclude appropriate cognitive or physical ability to perform study protocol

Trial design

30 participants in 1 patient group

Observation of biomechanical effects post injection

Description:

Observation of effects on gait, lumbar spine range of motion and pain symptoms immediately following injection and at two weeks post injection.

Treatment:

Other: Observation of biomechanical effects post injection