Articles: low-back-pain.
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In order to assess the efficacy of epidural steroid injections (ESI) in acute and subacute pain due to lumbar spine disk herniation, we conducted a randomized trial, comparing 2 different protocols. Fourty patients with radicular pain due to L4-L5 and L5-S1 disc herniation were assigned to receive either 3 consecutive ESI every 24 hours through a spinal catheter (group A) or 3 consecutive ESI every 10 days with an epidural needle (group B). ⋯ The improvement in the scores of group B was continuous since the mean scores at 2 months of follow up were lower compared to the respective scores at 1 month. Protocol B (3 consecutive ESI every 10 days) was found more effective in the treatment of subacute pain compared to Protocol A (3 consecutive ESI every 24 hours) with statistically significant differences in the ODI and VAS scores at 2 months of follow-up.
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The study was designed to identify any association between the sacral hiatus of the dry sacral bones with that of patients with low back pain (LBP). The knowledge of the sacral hiatus is important in caudal epidural block (CEB). ⋯ The patients with LBP had a higher percentage of deficient dorsal walls in comparison to the osteological findings (Fig. 12, Tab. 7, Ref. 12). Full Text (Free, PDF) www.bmj.sk.
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Diagnostics of diseases of the lumbar part of spine in elderly and senile people is difficult due to their polyethiologics, similarity of clinical currents accompanied by both pathological and age changes in an organism essentially deforming a clinical picture of a disease. Having used the experience of treatment of 2102 patients with low-back pain, the authors worked out the schemes of differential, thopical and X-ray diagnosis. All that will enable the practice doctors to diagnose the diseases in proper time and to determine the proper way of inquiry and treatment.