腰痛疾患に対する硬膜外ステロイドホルモン注入療法の治療成績

抄録

Some cases of low back pain are resistant to various conservative treatments. For such cases we have tried the epidural injection of dectan-suspension, and report the results of fifty cases. The effect of the treatment is evaluated in five grades: complete cure, remarkable improvement, improvement, no change, and change for the worse.
The data thus obtained is examined from three points of view, that is, in relation to the kind of disease, the periods since the onset of the disease, and the frequency of injections. The conclusion is that a complete cure or remarkable improvement is often observed in the cases of sciatic pain, that the earlier the treatment is given, the greater the effect is, and that the injections seems to be limited to five or six. This method seems to be very helpful in confirming operative indication for intervertebral disc protrusion.