Nuclear magnetic resonance therapy in lumbar disc herniation with lumbar radicular syndrome: effects of the intervention on pain intensity, health-related quality of life, disease-related disability, consumption of pain medication, duration of sick leave and MRI analysis

European Spine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1296-1308

  Salfinger, H ^a   Salomonowitz, G ^b   Friedrich, K M ^b   Hahne, J ^a   Holzapfel, J ^a   Friedrich, M ^a  

^a CEOPS Center of Excellence for Orthopaedic Pain Management Speising   (Austria)

^b UNIV KLIN FÜR RADIODIAGNOSTIK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Low back pain; Lumbar disc herniation; Lumbar radicular syndrome; Nuclear magnetic resonance therapy; SF 36 and Roland Morris disability questionnaire; VAS and sick leave

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PAIN INTENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT FORM 36; THERAPEUTIC NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; AGED; COMPLICATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROCEDURES; RADICULOPATHY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESICS; DISKECTOMY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC FIELD THERAPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADICULOPATHY; SICK LEAVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930274288     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: 14320932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-014-3601-7     Document Type: Article

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