Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01407913
Caudal Epidural Steroid Injections for Low Back Pain/Sciatic Lumbar Pain
Efficacy Study of Caudal Epidural Steroid Injections in Patients With Low Back Pain/Radiculopathy
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 42 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Ioannina · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 85 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The study hypothesis is that caudal epidural steroid injections provides short term relief to patients with persistent low back pain and sciatica due degenerative disc disease or lumbar spinal stenosis. Patients will be evaluated wiht clinical examination and radiological examinations before injections. They will be followed up with questionnaires on pain and disability up to 6 months postinjection.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | caudal epidural steroid injection | injecting steroids in the epidural space via caudal route |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2010-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2014-06-01
- Completion
- 2014-06-01
- First posted
- 2011-08-02
- Last updated
- 2015-05-27
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Greece
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01407913. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.