Online ISSN: 2515-8260

“COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FUNCTIONAL EFFICACY OF TRANSFORAMINAL VS INTERLAMINAR EPIDURAL STEROID INJECTION FOR LUMBAR DISC DISEASE”

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Dr. Vinod kumar Sajjan , Dr. Anagha M V , Dr. Roshan kumar B N , Dr. Suresh I

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Aims and objective: To compare efficacy of pain relief function of therapeutic transforaminal vs interlaminar epidural steroid injections and to assess improvement in functional outcome in lumbar disc disease patients after treatment. Methodology: Patients with back pain documented with lumbar disc disease treated initially with rest, analgesics and physiotherapy for 6 weeks, will be analyzed clinically and radiologically. All the patients selected for the study be examined according to protocol, clinical and radiological investigations. Patients will be subjected into two groups by simple random sampling containing 30 members each. Group A will be given transforaminal epidural steroid injection and Group B will be given epidural steroid injection by Interlaminar route. Post epidural steroid injection patients were followed up for 6months and post injection disability and pain was assessed using Roland morris low back pain disability questionnaire, visual numerical score, finger floor distance, patient satisfaction score

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