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Purpose: Epidural injections have been used for many years in the treatment of chronic pain in patients with chronic back and leg pain and chronic neck and neck pain. We aimed at comparing the effectiveness of Lomber and cervical epidural steroid injections on pain palliation, duration duration and patient satisfaction. Instrument and Method: This is a retrospective, observational one-centric study. A total of 159 patients (96 women, 63 men) were involved in the study with epidural steroid injections to cervical and lombal areas. Patients were divided into two groups as lomber epidural steroid injection "Group 1" and cervical epidural steroid injection "Group 2". Patients were recurrently assessed in terms of the pre- and post-injection numerical scale (NRS), the duration period, the possible complications associated with the injection and patient satisfaction. Results: 130 patients in Group 1 and 29 patients in Group 2. Pre-operative median NRS: Group 1 in 8, Group 2 in 7 and postoperative median NRS: Group 1 in 3, Group 2 in 4; Patient satisfaction in Group 1 in 56,15% and Group 2 in 48,6%; average pain relief period was 7.23 months in Group 1 and 8.17 months in Group 2. There were no major complications related to the treatment in both groups. There was no statistically meaningful difference between the two groups in the evaluated parameters. The result: Pain palliation for cervical and lombal epidural steroid injections, the duration of duration and patient satisfaction were observed similar.

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