Duration Dependent Outcomes of Combined Dorsal Root Ganglion Pulsed Radiofrequency and Epidural Steroid Injection in Chronic Lumbosacral Radicular Pain.

J Clin Med · 2026 · PMC12841868 · PMID 41598646

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For functional disability outcomes, the 8 min protocol demonstrated a highly significant overall advantage (LME estimate: −12.84, 95% CI: −19.36 to −6.32, p < 0.001).

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showed a trendp = 0.082so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

GPES responder rates (score ≥ 6) showed a trend favoring the 8 min protocol at later time points, with 57.1% of patients in the 8 min group at 6 months versus 36.1% in the 4 min group ( p = 0.082), representing a 21.0 percentage point difference.

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

The 8 min group showed consistently greater improvements than the 4 min group, although the differences in median changes did not reach statistical significance in the univariate analyses ( Table 2 ).

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