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Do Oral Steroid Dose Packs Predict How Well Epidural Steroid Injections Will Work?

NCT02026726 · Status: TERMINATED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2020-08-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this observational study is to show whether a standard oral steroid dose pack can be used as a screening tool to assess the effectiveness of a subsequent epidural steroid injection (ESI). If an oral steroid does not give a patient significant temporary relief of pain from a herniated lumbar disc then an epidural steroid injection will not either. Therefore the risk and expense associated from the interventional pain management procedure for those patients could be avoided and other treatment modalities pursued.

Conditions

  • Lumbar Spine Disc Herniation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bert L. Fichman, MD · Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-11-30
Primary Completion
2020-08-21
Completion
2020-08-21

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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