Transforaminal and Parasagittal Approach in Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection

Diskapi Teaching and Research Hospital

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Lumbar Radiculopathy

Treatments: Procedure: Lateral parasagittal group; Procedure: transforaminal group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05551676

Lomber Epidural

Details and patient eligibility

About

Lumbar epidural injection is used in the treatment of lumbar radicular pain. There are three different application methods: lateral parasagittal, midline interlaminar and transforaminal epidural injection. Investigator aimed to compare lateral parasagittal and transforaminal epidural injection methods. The purpose of the study is to determine which method is more efficient.

Full description

It was planned to recruit 60 participants in the study. Interlaminar epidural steroid injection will be applied to 30 patients with midline and 30 patients with lateral parasagittal approach. All patients will receive Oswestry disability index before and 2-4-12 weeks after the procedure. All patients will receive Somatization Amplification Scale (SSAS) before the treatment. The results of the patients will be compared. It will be investigated which method is more effective.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Unilateral low back pain, radiculopathy

Exclusion criteria

• malignancy
• past back surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Transforaminal group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Transforaminal steroid injection will be applied, 30 patients

Treatment:

Procedure: transforaminal group

Lateral parasagittal group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Lateral parasagittal steroid injection will be applied, 30 patients

Treatment:

Procedure: Lateral parasagittal group