Status:
UNKNOWN
Can Patient Expectations Influence Pain Reduction After Epidural Injections in Patients With Low Back Pain?
Lead Sponsor:
Ospedale Regionale di Lugano
Collaborating Sponsors:
Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Conditions:
Expectations
Back Pain
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Brief Summary
Investigators hypothesize that patients with higher expectations regarding their epidural injection experience a higher pain reduction of their lower back pain and/or leg pain after an epidural inject...
Detailed Description
Chronic low back pain (with or without lower extremity pain) is extremely common problem in primary care and the leading cause worldwide for disability. Approximately 70 to 85% of the western populati...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion criteria
- Subjects fulfilling all of the following inclusion criteria are eligible for the investigation:
- Age \> 18 years old.
- Patients treated with a fluoroscopic guided lumbar epidural injection (transforaminal/translaminar/caudal) for back and/or leg pain
- Exclusion criteria The presence of any one of the following exclusion criteria will lead to the exclusion of the subject
- patients who did not complete the questionnaires
- patient did not sign the general consent form (EOC\_M-AFRI-001/A)
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 20 2022
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
September 30 2022
Estimated Enrollment :
80 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT05402631
Start Date
April 20 2022
End Date
September 30 2022
Last Update
October 3 2022
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Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Lugano, Switzerland, 6900