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Lead
Santiago Garcia-Hernandez
Chronic lumbar pain is a common affection in the adult population, and an important source of chronic incapacity and impaired quality of life. There is a wide range of therapeutic options for the treatment of chronic lumbar pain. This study will analyze the response to several interventional pain management techniques and will search for factors that may be associated to a better or worse response to the techniques.
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Patients older than 18 years old with chronic lumbar pain to whom one of the following interventional pain management techniques has been indicated:
Radiofrequency lumbar facet joint injection
Radiofrequency lumbar facet joint denervation
Lumbar epidural corticosteroid injection
Caudal epidural corticosteroid injection
Pulsed radiofrequency of the lumbar dorsal root ganglion
Dorsal root ganglion injection
You may not be if
Patients that have not undergone the interventional pain management technique. The interventional pain management technique is considered not performed if it is not done after a twelve month period after recruitment.
Patients who are not willing to participate.
Patients of whom it is impossible to obtain data of response.
Patients who undergo low back surgery while they are in the study.
Patients who suffer from an intercurrent disease that may interfere with the evaluation of chronic lumbar pain.
Patients who suffer from myofascial pain syndromes.
Patients who undergo pulsed radiofrequency denervation for the treatment of sacroiliac joint syndrome.
