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Evaluation Of Sodium Valproate Low Dose Efficacy In Radicular Pain Management And It’S Relation With Pharmacokinetics Parameters, Mona Ghasemian, Mohammad Bagher Owlia, Mohammad Hossein Mosaddegh, Masoud Nakhaie Nejad, Seyed Mojtaba Sohrevardi
Evaluation Of Sodium Valproate Low Dose Efficacy In Radicular Pain Management And It’S Relation With Pharmacokinetics Parameters, Mona Ghasemian, Mohammad Bagher Owlia, Mohammad Hossein Mosaddegh, Masoud Nakhaie Nejad, Seyed Mojtaba Sohrevardi
BioMedicine
Background: Radiculopathy due to lumbar or cervical disc disease is the most common chronic neuropathic pain in adults. The aim of present study was evaluation of low dose of sodium valproate on radicular pain and determining VPA pharmacokinetics.
Materials and Methods: In this double blind randomized placebo control clinical study, 80 patients with established lumbar or cervical radicular pain, have been randomly allocated into two study groups: 40 have received sodium valproate 200 mg/day and Celecoxib 100 mg/day and acetaminophen 500 mg PRN as rescue medication, and second group has received placebo, Celecoxib and acetaminophen. Quantitative assessment of pain was …