| Spinal nerve roots in LDP group | F | P-value | |||||
US-Guided LESI (n = 10) | FL-Guided LESI (n = 10) | US-Guided CESI (n = 10) | FL-Guided CESI (n = 10) | Blinding LSPSI (n = 10) | ||||
Baseline ODI | Mean | 61.0 | 58.4 | 47.6 | 57.3 | 55.9 | 1.01 | 0.411 NS |
±SD | 19.2 | 11.7 | 22.9 | 12.4 | 9.3 | |||
ODI at 1 week | Mean | 35.0 | 32.5 | 25.5 | 30.2 | 29.3 | 1.19 | 0.327 NS |
±SD | 10.0 | 6.6 | 12.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | |||
ODI at 1 month | Mean | 26.6 | 24.8 | 22.1 | 19.9 | 24.8 | 0.61 | 0.655 NS |
±SD | 7.4 | 12.5 | 13.1 | 9.2 | 9.9 | |||
ODI at 2 months | Mean | 16.1 | 14.3 | 27.0 | 19.6 | 29.0 | 2.5 | 0.055 NS |
±SD | 6.0 | 14.3 | 18.2 | 11.3 | 12.3 | |||
| Para-Spinal root comparisons | |||||||
P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | |||||
Baseline ODI | 0.478 NS | 0.728 NS | 0.251 NS | 0.845 NS | ||||
ODI at 1 week | 0.223 NS | 0.491 NS | 0.414 NS | 0.846 NS | ||||
ODI at 1 month | 0.707 NS | 1.0 NS | 0.573 NS | 0.309 NS | ||||
ODI at 2 months | 0.032 S | 0.015 S | 0.733 NS | 0.114 NS |