Objective: Reveal and quantify qualities of reported experiences chronic pain on social media, from multiple pathological backgrounds, by means the novel Reddit Reports Chronic Pain (RRCP) dataset, using Natural Language Processing techniques. Materials Methods: Define validate RRCP dataset for a set subreddits related to pain. Identify main concerns discussed in each subreddit. Model subreddit...

Purpose. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of adhesiolysis followed by the injection of steroid and local anesthetic during epiduroscopy on sensory nerve function, pain and functional disability in patients with chronic sciatica. Methods. Epidural adhesiolysis using epiduroscopy followed by the injection of steroid and local anesthetic were scheduled in 19 patients with chronic s...

The nature of symptoms and signs of sciatica, genetic factors, and efficacy of periradicular infiltration were studied in 160 nonoperated patients with unilateral sciatica of 3 to 28 weeks duration. Back and leg pain (100-mm VAS), disability (Oswestry), and quality-of-life (NHP) were evaluated. ENMG and 1.5-T MRI were performed on every patient. Presence of the Trp2 and Trp3 alleles of collagen...

BACKGROUND Low back pain and sciatica is a common clinical condition. It is a most common orthopaedic complaint in the Kaski region of Nepal. The reason for its increased incidence may be hilly terrain, difficult working and living environment of the region. The initial treatment of Low back pain is conservative. Epidural steroid injection is being slowly established as are liable mode of conse...

People around the world suffer chronic lower back pain. Because spine imaging often does not explain the degree of perceived pain reported by patients, the role of the processing of nociceptor signals in the brain as the basis of pain perception is gaining increased attention. Modern neuroimaging techniques (including functional and morphometric methods) have produced results that suggest which...

Purpose. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of adhesiolysis followed by the injection of steroid and local anesthetic during epiduroscopy on sensory nerve function, pain and functional disability in patients with chronic sciatica. Methods. Epidural adhesiolysis using epiduroscopy followed by the injection of steroid and local anesthetic were scheduled in 19 patients with chronic s...

Background: Epidural steroid injections are largely used in the management of osteoarthritis-related sciatica. Three possible sites injection possible: caudal through sacral hiatus, interlaminar and transforaminal site. The technique is known to be most simple one. However, doubts still persist about this infiltration’s efficacy. Objectives: aim work was study short-term mid-term efficacy epidu...

Pseudogout of the lumbar facet joints is rare. We report on a 69-year-old woman with 2-level symptomatic synovial cysts of the facet joints caused by calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition. She underwent surgical decompression for sciatica and low back pain. At one-year follow-up, she had recovered completely.

STUDY DESIGN Discs were cultured during discectomy from patients with back pain, sciatica, and radiologic evidence of disc herniation causing nerve root compression. OBJECTIVE To investigate the claim of culpability of bacteria in causing the local inflammatory process seen in patients with disc herniation and radiculopathy. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Bacteria have been cultured from interv...

The inhibitory effects of acute pain produced by the Lasègue's manoeuvre on the lower limb nociceptive flexion reflexes induced by electrical sural nerve stimulation were explored in patients complaining of sciatica as a result of an identified unilateral disc protrusion. Lassègue's manoeuvre on the affected side produced a typical radicular pain and resulted in a powerful depression of nocicep...