Local injection therapy with steroids in 1 060 patients with neck-shoulder and lumbocrural pain
Abstract：BACKGROUND: Neck-shonlder and lumbocrural pain (NSLP) is one of the diseases, which are relatively difficult to cure. There are many methods to treat it but the recurrence rate is high.OBJECTIVE: To understand the curative effect of local injection therapy with steroids and try to find a simple and rapid method to cure this kind of disease.DESIGN: An auto-control study depended on diagnosis.SETTING and PARTICIPANTS: The experiment was completed in the Diagnosis and Therapy Center of NSLP, Surgery Outpatient Service, Tongji Hospital. The subjects were 1251 patients with NSLP, 504 males and 747females, aged 19-84 years old, averaged: 49. 1 years old.INTERVENTIONS: With controlled dosage and treatment time, local injection therapy with steroids was applied and small-needle scalpel and acupuncture were also used as accessory treatments. Therapeutic evaluations were conducted respectively after 1-6 treatments.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Symptoms and auto-feelings of the patients.RESULTS: Totally 1060 of the 1251 patients who were treated had complete material. Basically healed: 95.3%, no improvement: 4.7%.CONCLUSION: Local injection with steroids in patients with NSLP is an effective therapeutic method.
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Publication Date：2004-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：2( 2774-2775 )