Evaluation of the Effect of Caudal Epidural Pulsed Radiofrequency Stimulation on Chronic Pain

Diskapi Teaching and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain, Chronic

Treatments: Procedure: caudal epidural pulse radio frequency

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05062993

98/08

Details and patient eligibility

About

Postlumbar surgery syndrome (PLSS; failed back syndrome) is characterized by persistent pain in the lower back or lower extremities after spinal surgery. It occurs in 10-40% of patients who undergo a back surgery. The recently introduced pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) technique is widely used to provide relief from chronic pain and studies have shown that PRF stimulation can be used to control neuropathic pain by placing the needle electrodes into the caudal epidural space The aim of this study is evaluation of the effect of ultrasound guided caudal epidural pulsed radiofrequency stimulation in patients with chronic lumbosacral radicular pain due to postlumbar surgery syndrome.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• chronic pain in legs or back pain
• unsatisfactory response to at least one transforaminal, lumbar or caudal steroid injections

Exclusion criteria

• coagulation disorders
• psychiatric disorders
• rheumatoid disorders
• infections

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

study group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients with chronic radicular pain will be included in this study. Ultrasound guided caudal epidural pulse radiofrequency technique will be applied to the study group.

Treatment:

Procedure: caudal epidural pulse radio frequency