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- Title
Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection for Painful Spasticity in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Report.
- Authors
Hyun Bang; Seong Min Chun; Hee Won Park; Moon Suk Bang; Keewon Kim
- Abstract
We report a case of a 53-year-old male with traumatic cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). He could not maintain a standing position because of painful spasticity in his lower limbs. A magnetic resonance imaging and electromyography indicated chronic lumbosacral radiculopathy, explaining his chronic low back pain before the injury. For diagnostic as well as therapeutic purposes, transforaminal epidural steroid injection (ESI) to the right L5 root was performed. After the intervention, the spasticity decreased and his ambulatory function improved. This case illustrates that lumbar radiculopathy concomitant with a cervical SCI can produce severe spasticity and it can be dramatically improved by ESI.
- Subjects
EPIDURAL injections; STEROID drugs; SPASTICITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; CERVICAL vertebrae injuries
- Publication
Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2015, Vol 39, Issue 4, p649
- ISSN
2234-0645
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5535/arm.2015.39.4.649