Descriptive Patterns of Radiating Pain for Lumbar Herniated Intervertebral Disc / 대한척추외과학회지
Journal of Korean Society of Spine Surgery
;
: 217-225, 2003.
Article
in Korean
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| ID: wpr-151965
ABSTRACT
STUDY DESIGN AND OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the descriptive patterns of radiating leg pain due to lumbar herniated intervertebral disc, and the correlation between the patterns and various factors such as age, gender, occupation, education, duration of symptom, straight leg raising test, and degree of disc herniation on magnetic resonance imaging. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
One hundred and three patients who had lower back pain and radiating leg pain were diagnosed with lumbar herniated intervertebral disc. We investigated the descriptions of their radiating leg pain, and standardized and classified 44 adjective words to 11 groups by the Korean McGill pain questionnaire. We analyzed the frequencies of each word and the correlation between the frequencies and the various factors.RESULTS:
The pattern of pain descriptions tended to exhibit certain characteristic traits. The word 'flashing' was the most common (72.8%), followed by the word 'jerking'(62.1%). Descriptions of most patients included either the word 'flashing' or 'jerking'(92.2%). However, there was no significant relation between the frequencies of each word and any factors (p>0.05, chisquare).CONCLUSIONS:
The pattern of patients' descriptions for radiating pain of lumbar herniated intervertebral disc is either the word 'flashing'or 'jerking'. This is a useful description to diagnosis and plan for the treatment of lumbar herniated intervertebral disc.
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Main subject:
Pain Measurement
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Low Back Pain
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Diagnosis
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Education
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Intervertebral Disc
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Leg
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Occupations
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of Korean Society of Spine Surgery
Year:
2003
Type:
Article
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