BACKGROUND The prognostic value of the clinical findings elicited in the patient presenting with sciatica is unknown. AIM To investigate whether history and physical examination findings can predict outcome. DESIGN OF STUDY Prospective study of prognostic factors. SETTING A sample of primary care patients with sciatica. METHOD Short-term favourable outcome was registered as improvement ...

The literature describes multimodal pain-management programs as successful therapy options in the conservative treatment of chronic low back pain. Yet, the intensity and inclusion criteria of such programs remain debatable. In many studies, the pain originating from spinal structures is described as nonspecific low back pain - a diffuse diagnosis without serious implications. The purpose of thi...

We attempt to discuss the effects of oral Shentong Zhuyu Decoction on pain degree and serum 5-hydroxytryptophan prostaglandin E2 patients with sciatica caused by lumbar disc herniation. selected 90 under-treated in orthopedics department our hospital from March 2018 December 2020 as study cohort. Divided them into experimental group control randomly, 45 both groups treated mecobalamin tablets, ...

Objective. To investigate the short- and long-term effects of electroacupuncture (EA) compared with medium-frequency electrotherapy (MFE) on chronic discogenic sciatica. Methods. One hundred participants were randomized into two groups to receive EA (n = 50) or MFE (n = 50) for 4 weeks. A 28-week follow-up of the two groups was performed. The primary outcome measure was the average leg pain int...

In this case report, we describe an "uncommon" case of axial gouty arthropathy in a 69-year-old woman with bilateral sciatica that was thoroughly evaluated with conventional radiography, CT scan, magnetic resonance imaging, bone scintigraphy, and PET-CT. Axial gouty arthropathy should be included in the differential diagnosis of chronic low back pain, mainly when several risk factors for gout a...

The authors report a series of 43 patients suffering from lower limb pain, almost constantly associated with chronic or acute backpain, treated by microsurgical nerve root decompression and by implantation of a soft intervertebral prothesis (DIAM). Satisfying results were obtained in 97% of cases, inducing the authors to consider the device a reliable tool for curing low-back pain and sciatica....

Sciatica in patients with disk disease was long ascribed to pressure put on the sciatic nerve root by a herniated disk. However, a role for chemical factors acting in conjunction with this mechanical insult is suggested by a number of clinical observations: disk surgery does not consistently provide pain relief, large disk herniations are not always symptomatic, severe pain may be present in pa...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of hyaluronidase in lumbar interlaminar epidural injection (LIEI) for low back pain and sciatica. METHOD Sixty-one patients suffering from severe low back pain and sciatica were randomly allocated into three groups. Group T (n=18, mean duration of illness: 2.12±1.16 months) received lumbar interlaminar epidural injection (LIEI) with 2 ml triamcinolone (40 mg/m...

The purpose of this report was to share our successful cases only surgical decompression for symptomatic multilevel lumbar spinal stenosis, by assessing treatment outcomes and perioperative complications. Two patients who had stenosis in March May 2021 were investigated. They preoperatively diagnosed with the calcified disc protrusion vacuum intervertebral space magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)...