IMPLICATIONS: Quantitative sensory testing has the potential to become an important tool in
the selection of appropriate treatment for lumbar radiculopathy and to assist in identifying the …

Clinical trials, more specifically randomized controlled trials (RCT), have long been
considered a gold standard of clinical research. An RCT is the strongest research design for …

With the increasing use of epidural steroid injections, anesthesiologists are becoming
involved more deeply with low back pain patients. While many patients with sciatica respond …

Xavier et al (1) have reported a series of patients with symptoms of lumbar radiculopathy
who experit, nced days to weeks of pain relief following sciatic nerve block. A decade ago …

Objective Epidural steroid injections (ESI) are the most commonly performed pain
procedures. Despite numerous studies, controversy continues to surround their …

Radicular pain in the distribution of the sciatic nerve, resulting from herniation of one or more
lumbar intervertebral discs, is a frequent and often debilitating event. The lifetime incidence …

Lumbar radiculopathy is one of the most common spine conditions seen by the spine
specialist, with its prevalence being 3-5% of the population. 1 First-line treatment of radicular …

Methods. Thirty-three factors derived from patient evaluation and physical examination were
selected according to previous studies, clinical importance, and ease of assessment in a …

METHODS: Ninety patients aged 18–60 years with L5-S1 disk herniations and radicular
pain were randomly assigned to one of these groups to have epidural steroid injection …

Background. Quantitative sensory testing (QST) has been used to predict the outcome of
epidural steroid injections in lumbosacral radicular pain and has the potential to be an …