In 77 patients with low back pain and leg pain, cerebrospinal fluid levels of the body's own VIP were altered in patients with a positive straight leg raising test.
In plain wordsIn people with back and leg pain, the body's own VIP levels in spinal fluid were linked to a positive leg-raising test.
- Outcome
- Direction not reportedCSF VIP levels by straight leg raising test
- Study
n = 77
- Comparator
- Negative straight leg raising test
- Outcome group
- Pain · Nervous system and cognition
Source sentences
In the present mixed back pain patient population, which included radicular pain symptoms due to disc herniation and lumbar stenosis, alterations in vasoactive intestinal peptide levels in particular were observed with a positive straight leg raising test.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Straight leg raising was recorded before myelography in 77 patients.
At myelography, samples of cerebrospinal fluid were drawn and later analyzed for neuropeptides vasoactive intestinal polypeptide and somatostatin.
This result measures the body's own Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP, aviptadil). Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.