Thermal QST Phenotypes Associated with Response to Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injections: A Pilot Study
Author(s) -
Dermot P. Maher,
Weihua Ding,
Sarabdeep Singh,
Arissa Opalacz,
Claire E. Fishman,
Mary Houghton,
Shihab Ahmed,
Lucy Chen,
Jianren Mao,
Yi Zhang
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1526-4637
pISSN - 1526-2375
DOI - 10.1093/pm/pnw364
Subject(s) - radicular pain , medicine , epidural steroid injection , lumbar , low back pain , anesthesia , quantitative sensory testing , threshold of pain , sensation , surgery , sensory system , pathology , psychology , alternative medicine , neuroscience , cognitive psychology , biology
Response to lumbar epidural steroid injection in lumbar radicular pain varies. The purpose of this study is to characterize the changes in quantitative sensory testing (QST) phenotypes of subjects and compare the QST characteristics in patients who do respond to treatment of radicular pain with a lumbar epidural steroid injection (ESI).
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