Abstract—Chronic low back pain (LBP) is a common cause of morbidity and work absenteeism worldwide. This hospital based randomized, controlled, interventional study is conducted to assess the effectiveness of caudal epidural steroid injection in lumbar spinal stenosis. Study subjects were chronic low back pain patients attending at department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR), Sawai Man Singh Hospital, Jaipur (Rajasthan) India. For study purpose, 60 LBP cases were taken in Study group and 60 cases were taken for control group. To compare the effect between conservative treatment alone and added with caudal epidural injection of steroid plus saline in lumbar spinal stenosis, in study group, a mixture of MPA (3mg/kg body wt.) plus 16 ml of normal saline was injected in epidural space along with conservative treatment and in control group only conservative treatment was given. It was observed in this study that patient had more significant improvement in low back pain, leg pain, walking distance and functional activity after caudal epidural block in the study group than control group for a period of 3-6 months. So it was concluded that when conservative treatments were combined with interventional methods in form of caudal epidural steroid injection the amount of relief gets augmented as compared to the conservative treatment alone resulting in the patient benefiting in terms of much better symptom control and pain relief, improvement in anxiety, depression and activity limitations and quality of life.
Keywords: Chronic low back pain (LBP), Methylprednisolone Acetate.
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