<b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Background:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Coccydynia is a painful condition with tenderness and ache in sacrococc...<b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Background:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Coccydynia is a painful condition with tenderness and ache in sacrococcygeal area which may radiate to the buttocks and lower back. Coccydynia is a multifactorial disorder</span><span></span><span></span><b><span><span></span><span></span> </span></b><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">and the most common cause of it is trauma. The initial treatment of the disease is conservative methods. One of the most common conservative treatments of chronic coccydynia is the local corticosteroid injection, which performed usually by palpation-guided method. This study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of local corticosteroid injection using palpation and needling method with palpation method alone. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Patients and Methods: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">In this prospective study</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">, 50</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> patients with the diagnosis</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> of coccydynia were enrolled between 2010 </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">and</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> 2017. All patients had chronic coccydynia which did not respond to conservative therapy for at least three months. Participants were divided into two groups and each group consisted of 25 individuals. Patients who underwent local corticosteroid injection using palpation guide technique alone were assigned as group A and others who underwent palpation guid</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ing</span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> injection with needling technique were considered as group B. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">There was a statistically significant difference between the mean VAS scores in preinjection and final follow up visit in each groups</span></span><span展开更多
文摘<b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Background:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Coccydynia is a painful condition with tenderness and ache in sacrococcygeal area which may radiate to the buttocks and lower back. Coccydynia is a multifactorial disorder</span><span></span><span></span><b><span><span></span><span></span> </span></b><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">and the most common cause of it is trauma. The initial treatment of the disease is conservative methods. One of the most common conservative treatments of chronic coccydynia is the local corticosteroid injection, which performed usually by palpation-guided method. This study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of local corticosteroid injection using palpation and needling method with palpation method alone. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Patients and Methods: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">In this prospective study</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">, 50</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> patients with the diagnosis</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> of coccydynia were enrolled between 2010 </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">and</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> 2017. All patients had chronic coccydynia which did not respond to conservative therapy for at least three months. Participants were divided into two groups and each group consisted of 25 individuals. Patients who underwent local corticosteroid injection using palpation guide technique alone were assigned as group A and others who underwent palpation guid</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ing</span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> injection with needling technique were considered as group B. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">There was a statistically significant difference between the mean VAS scores in preinjection and final follow up visit in each groups</span></span><span
