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[Radicular low back pain: is there a relationship between the treatment regimen and outcome?]
Stephan A L Frisch1, Bernhard Widder
1Institut für Anästhesiologie/Schmerzklinik Nottwil, Schweizer Paraplegiker-Zentrum, Nottwil. stephan.frisch@paranet.ch
Objective:
To identify a possible relationship between the non-surgical treatment regimen and outcome.
Methods:
In a sample of 170 patients with sciatica due to a herniated disk the intensity of a conservative multimodal inpatient treatment in a neurological department was extracted. The outcome was examined using two prospective cohorts (183 patients). These results were compared with published data from orthopaedic inpatient rehabilitation in Germany.
Results:
The neurological inpatient treatment regimen was more intense than the orthopaedic inpatient rehabilitation, especially with regard to physiotherapy. In contrast, physical therapy was applied more often in orthopaedic rehabilitation. A better short-term outcome with regard to pain intensity was found after multimodal conservative treatment.
Conclusions:
Further studies are needed to compare different treatment regimens in patients with sciatica.
