The Effect of Local Anesthetic Injection Depth on Procedural Pain and Discomfort During Fluoroscopically Guided Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Injections

Summary

Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Injection is helpful for the treatment of lumbosacral radicular pain. But needle handling during the procedure may cause pain and discomfort to the patient. At the local skin anesthesia step, local anesthetics injection to the muscle layer along the needle pathway as well as the subcutaneous layer may reduce the procedural pain. In addition, it can reduce the injection site pain that may occur after the procedure.

Timeline

Start

2017-10-16

Primary completion

2018-02-28

Completion

2018-02-28

Publications

• Baek IC, Choi SY, Suh J, Kim SH. The Influence of Local Anesthesia Depth on Procedural Pain During Fluoroscopically Guided Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Injections: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2019 Apr;98(4):253-257. doi: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000001032.

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