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

• Published in: European spine journal Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 1296 - 1308
• Main Authors: Salfinger, H., Salomonowitz, G., Friedrich, K. M., Hahne, J., Holzapfel, J., Friedrich, M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.06.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Analgesics - administration & dosage; Diskectomy; Double-Blind Method; Drug Administration Schedule; Female; Humans; Intervertebral Disc Displacement - complications; Intervertebral Disc Displacement - therapy; Lumbar Vertebrae; Magnetic Field Therapy - methods; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Neurosurgery; Original Article; Pain - surgery; Pain Measurement - methods; Prospective Studies; Quality of Life; Radiculopathy - etiology; Radiculopathy - therapy; Sick Leave - statistics & numerical data; Surgical Orthopedics; Treatment Outcome; Young Adult; VAS and sick leave; SF-36 and Roland Morris disability questionnaire; Lumbar disc herniation; Low back pain; Nuclear magnetic resonance therapy; Lumbar radicular syndrome

Purpose The objective was to assess the effects of therapeutic nuclear magnetic resonance (tNMR) as a conservative treatment for lumbar radicular syndrome (LRS) in patients with lumbar disc herniation. Methods The prospective, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial included 94 patients,...