Prognostic factors associated with outcome following an epidural steroid injection for disc-related sciatica: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

A Nagington, NE Foster, K Snell, K Konstantinou… - European Spine …, 2023 - Springer
… terms of factors that predict outcomes in patients following ESI for disc-related sciatica. The
… The results of this systematic review can help to inform at least some of the decisions about …

Quantitative sensory testing to evaluate and compare the results after epidural injection and simple discectomy, in patients with radiculopathy secondary to lumbar …

I Garcia-Saiz, EM San Norberto, E Tamayo… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - Springer
… Despite the use of QST has become more widespread, the utility QST to predict the outcome
in radiculopathy secondary to lumbar herniation has yet to be established [37]. There are …

Predictive factors of the effectiveness of caudal epidural steroid injections in managing patients with chronic low back pain and radiculopathy

GG Billy, J Lin, M Gao, MX Chow - Clinical spine surgery, 2017 - journals.lww.com
… , presence of lumbar paraspinal and sciatic notch sensitivity, … Our results with reviewing
outcomes of the caudal epidural … have explored factors that may predict a successful response to …

… preoperative opioid therapy in patients with a single lumbar disc herniation positively influence the postoperative outcome detected by quantitative sensory testing?

L Gasser, S Lener, S Hartmann, WN Löscher… - Neurosurgical …, 2022 - Springer
sciatica. The aim of this study is to evaluate if opioids have an impact on … outcome in patients
suffering from lumbar disc herniation. To assess this objectively quantitative sensory testing (…

Thermal QST phenotypes associated with response to lumbar epidural steroid injections: a pilot study

DP Maher, W Ding, S Singh, A Opalacz… - Pain …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… the changes in quantitative sensory testing (QST) phenotypes … who do respond to treatment
of radicular pain with a lumbar … with altered outcomes following epidural steroid injections [25]…

Gender differences after lumbar sequestrectomy: a prospective clinical trial using quantitative sensory testing

A Tschugg, WN Löscher, S Lener, M Wildauer… - European Spine …, 2017 - Springer
… time course of recovery in sensory dysfunction and the results of different treatment options.
… to predict the surgical success in patients undergoing sequestrectomy [31, 32]. In sciatica, …

Multicenter study evaluating factors associated with treatment outcome for low back pain injections

SP Cohen, TL Doshi, C Kurihara, D Reece… - Regional Anesthesia & …, 2022 - rapm.bmj.com
… (ESIs) for sciatica, and sacroiliac joint (SIJ) injections and … (standardized pain stimulus)
predicted less pain relief with ESI, … prior studies on quantitative sensory testing found an inverse …

[PDF][PDF] The Effect of Central Sensitization on Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injection Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Cervical Disc Herniation: An Observational …

R Sacaklidir, C Sanal-Toprak, FN Yucel… - Pain …, 2022 - researchgate.net
… method, such as Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST), can be considered as another limitation…
Can quantitative sensory testing predict the outcome of epidural steroid injections in sciatica

Electromyographic study to predict functional outcome of transforaminal epidural steroid injection in lumbosacral radiculopathy

H Sultan, TH Shehata, WS El-Emary… - Egyptian Rheumatology …, 2019 - Springer
… This study included 20 patients complaining of low back pain and sciatica owing to LSR.
Participants were included in the study if they fulfilled the following criteria [2,18]: …

Prognostic value of hypersensitivity reactions on epidural steroid injection outcomes: a phenotypic signature? A prospective cohort study

SP Cohen, TL Doshi, TC Dawson, A Gupta… - Regional Anesthesia & …, 2019 - rapm.bmj.com
… In a similar study that sought to predict ESI outcomes, Schiff and Eisenberg28 reported mixed
results for quantitative sensory testing. Compared with quantitative sensory testing which is …