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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