What is it about?
in herniated disc patients, pain in the nerve is provoked by mechanical pressure and inflammation. By combining McKenzie diagnosis and therapy and epidural injections it's reasonable to think that both mediators of the pain, being mechanical and chemical are challenged
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Why is it important?
Possibly this combined treatment can reduce surgery rates
Perspectives
This was the first paper published on combining injections and McKenzie diagnosis and therapy.It showed that this combination intervention had good short and longterm result for all primary and secondary outcome measures
hans van helvoirt
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This page is a summary of: Transforaminal epidural steroid injections influence Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) pain response classification in candidates for lumbar herniated disc surgery, Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, April 2016, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/bmr-160662.
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