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Are steroids required in the treatment of ganglion impar blockade in chronic coccydynia? a prospective double-blinded clinical trial

BACKGROUND: Ganglion impar blockade is a reliable and effective treatment option used in patients with coccydynia. Our primary objective was to specify the role of corticosteroids in impar blockade. We compared applications of local anesthetic with the local anesthetic + corticosteroid combination i...

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Autores principales: Sencan, Savas, Edipoglu, Ipek Saadet, Demir, Fatma Gul Ulku, Yolcu, Gunay, Gunduz, Osman Hakan
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Publicado: The Korean Pain Society 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31569923
http://dx.doi.org/10.3344/kjp.2019.32.4.301
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author Sencan, Savas
Edipoglu, Ipek Saadet
Demir, Fatma Gul Ulku
Yolcu, Gunay
Gunduz, Osman Hakan
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Edipoglu, Ipek Saadet
Demir, Fatma Gul Ulku
Yolcu, Gunay
Gunduz, Osman Hakan
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description BACKGROUND: Ganglion impar blockade is a reliable and effective treatment option used in patients with coccydynia. Our primary objective was to specify the role of corticosteroids in impar blockade. We compared applications of local anesthetic with the local anesthetic + corticosteroid combination in terms of treatment efficiency in patients with chronic coccydynia. METHODS: Our study was a prospective randomize double-blind study. The patients were divided into 2 groups after randomization. The first group (group SL) was made up of patients where a corticosteroid + local anesthetic were used during ganglion impar blockade. In the second group (group L) we used only local anesthetic. We evaluated numeric rating scale (NRS) and Beck depression scale, which were employed before the procedure and in 1st and 3rd months after the procedure. RESULTS: Seventy-three patients were included in the final analysis. We detected a significantly greater decrease in NRS values in the 1st month in group SL than in group L (P = 0.001). In the same way, NRS values in the 3rd month were significantly lower in the group with steroids (P = 0.0001). During the evaluation of the Beck test, we detected significantly greater decreases in the 1st month (P = 0.017) and 3rd month (P = 0.021) in the SL group than in the L group. CONCLUSIONS: Ganglion impar blockade decreases pain in the treatment of chronic coccydynia and improve depression. Addition of steroids in a ganglion impar blockade is required for treatment response that should accumulate over a long period of time.
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spelling pubmed-68139022019-10-30 Are steroids required in the treatment of ganglion impar blockade in chronic coccydynia? a prospective double-blinded clinical trial Sencan, Savas Edipoglu, Ipek Saadet Demir, Fatma Gul Ulku Yolcu, Gunay Gunduz, Osman Hakan Korean J Pain Original Article BACKGROUND: Ganglion impar blockade is a reliable and effective treatment option used in patients with coccydynia. Our primary objective was to specify the role of corticosteroids in impar blockade. We compared applications of local anesthetic with the local anesthetic + corticosteroid combination in terms of treatment efficiency in patients with chronic coccydynia. METHODS: Our study was a prospective randomize double-blind study. The patients were divided into 2 groups after randomization. The first group (group SL) was made up of patients where a corticosteroid + local anesthetic were used during ganglion impar blockade. In the second group (group L) we used only local anesthetic. We evaluated numeric rating scale (NRS) and Beck depression scale, which were employed before the procedure and in 1st and 3rd months after the procedure. RESULTS: Seventy-three patients were included in the final analysis. We detected a significantly greater decrease in NRS values in the 1st month in group SL than in group L (P = 0.001). In the same way, NRS values in the 3rd month were significantly lower in the group with steroids (P = 0.0001). During the evaluation of the Beck test, we detected significantly greater decreases in the 1st month (P = 0.017) and 3rd month (P = 0.021) in the SL group than in the L group. CONCLUSIONS: Ganglion impar blockade decreases pain in the treatment of chronic coccydynia and improve depression. Addition of steroids in a ganglion impar blockade is required for treatment response that should accumulate over a long period of time. The Korean Pain Society 2019-10 2019-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6813902/ /pubmed/31569923 http://dx.doi.org/10.3344/kjp.2019.32.4.301 Text en © The Korean Pain Society, 2019 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Yolcu, Gunay
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Are steroids required in the treatment of ganglion impar blockade in chronic coccydynia? a prospective double-blinded clinical trial
title Are steroids required in the treatment of ganglion impar blockade in chronic coccydynia? a prospective double-blinded clinical trial
title_full Are steroids required in the treatment of ganglion impar blockade in chronic coccydynia? a prospective double-blinded clinical trial
title_fullStr Are steroids required in the treatment of ganglion impar blockade in chronic coccydynia? a prospective double-blinded clinical trial
title_full_unstemmed Are steroids required in the treatment of ganglion impar blockade in chronic coccydynia? a prospective double-blinded clinical trial
title_short Are steroids required in the treatment of ganglion impar blockade in chronic coccydynia? a prospective double-blinded clinical trial
title_sort are steroids required in the treatment of ganglion impar blockade in chronic coccydynia? a prospective double-blinded clinical trial
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31569923
http://dx.doi.org/10.3344/kjp.2019.32.4.301
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