Combination Therapy With Atelocollagen in Epidural Nerve Block
Degenerative Lumbar Spine Disease
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Degenerative Lumbar Spine Disease
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients scheduled for epidural nerve block for lower back pain
- Patients over 21 years of age
- Back pain lasting more than 6 months
- Patients with ineffective or insignificant effects of conventional drugs and nerve block for back pain
- Patients with spinal stenosis or disc herniation at the lumbar 4-5 or lumbar 5-sacral 1 level on MRI, and the cross-sectional area of the multifidus muscle at the lesion site is less than 5 cm2 when measured by ultrasound.
Exclusion Criteria:
- When the degree of low back pain is 3 points or less on the 11-scale numeric rating scale (hereafter NRS)
- If lower back pain has rapidly worsened within the last week
- If you have other diseases that may cause low back pain: osteoarthritis of the hip joint, cancer, inflammatory arthritis, spondylitis, fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome, herpes zoster, postherpetic neuralgia, etc.
- When a diagnostic epidural nerve block is planned
- In the case of receiving conservative treatment, procedure, or surgery other than oral drugs such as epidural nerve block or proliferation treatment for the treatment of lower back pain within 4 weeks of screening
- When the low back pain assessed by NRS decreased by more than 50% after epidural nerve block in screening
- If back surgery is planned within 3 months of the procedure
- When NRS and ODI measurements cannot be made
- When collagen injection is contraindicated (eg when allergic to swine)
- Pregnant women
- If you cannot read or agree to the consent form
- If you are unable to sign the consent form yourself
Sites / Locations
- Ji Yeong Kim
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Experimental
Atelocollagen group
After obtaining informed consent for the study, epidural nerve block was performed. The patient is asked to return to the outpatient clinic of the pain center after 2 weeks. At this time, when the NRS of back pain does not improve by more than 50% compared to before the epidural nerve block and the cross-sectional area of the multifidus muscle using ultrasound is 5 cm2 or less, final enrollment is decided. The evaluation of the cross-sectional area and thickness of the multifidus muscle using ultrasound is performed with the patient prone, and the cross-sectional area of the multifidus muscle is measured at the same position as the level of the lesion on MRI.