| Spinal nerve roots in the DFO 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 | 63.8 | 54.2 | 54.6 | 55.4 | 58.4 | 0.6 | 0.661 NS |
±SD | 16.9 | 11.4 | 20.4 | 18.4 | 12.0 | |||
ODI at 1 week | Mean | 27.5 | 25.7 | 23.3 | 25.7 | 32.8 | 0.82 | 0.519 NS |
±SD | 13.2 | 10.6 | 15.6 | 10.9 | 11.3 | |||
ODI at 1 month | Mean | 22.7 | 21.2 | 19.7 | 20.3 | 31.3 | 1.72 | 0.161 NS |
±SD | 13.4 | 9.2 | 10.2 | 10.7 | 13.0 | |||
ODI at 2 months | Mean | 31.2 | 17.9 | 23.4 | 22.5 | 39.0 | 2.7 | 0.04 S |
±SD | 18.3 | 17.0 | 10.6 | 14.1 | 18.2 | |||
| Para-Spinal root comparisons | |||||||
P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | |||||
Baseline ODI | 0.461 NS | 0.566 NS | 0.604 NS | 0.682 NS | ||||
ODI at 1 week | 0.347 NS | 0.209 NS | 0.095 NS | 0.209 NS | ||||
ODI at 1 month | 0.1 NS | 0.055 NS | 0.028 S | 0.037 S | ||||
ODI at 2 months | 0.279 NS | 0.005 S | 0.033 S | 0.025 S |