Abstract

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: The median Orthopaedic surgery wait time in Canada is 36.7 weeks (Esmail 2008), thus there is a need to find alternative treatments for pathologies such as lumbar disc herniations (LDH). The literature has demonstrated that selective nerve root injections (SNRI) are able to alleviate radicular symptoms caused by LDH (Riew 2006) and may be beneficial as an alternative to surgery. Therefore it is necessary to determine whether SNRIs provide significant symptom resolution alleviating the need for surgery, or to determine if their success is transient and prolongs the time to surgery.

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