Study Design and Objective : To evaluate the descriptive patterns of radiating leg pain due to lumbar herniated intervertebral disc, nd the correlation between the patterns and various factors such as age, gender, occupation, education, duration of symptom. traight leg raising test, and degree of disc herniation on magnetic resonance imaging.
Mate ials and Methods : One hundred and three patients who had lower back pain and radiating leg pain were diagnosed with lumb; r herniated intervertebral disc. We investigated the descriptions of their radiating leg pain, and standardized and classified 44 & jective words to 11 groups by the Korean McGill pain questionnaire. We analyzed the frequencies of each word and the correlation between the frequencies and the various factors.
Results : The pattern of pain descriptions tended to exhibit certain characteristic traits. The word ´flashing´ was the most common ( 72.80/6), followed by the word jerking´ (62.1%). Descriptions of most patients included either the word ´flashing´ or jerking´ 922%). However, there was no significant relation between the frequencies of each word amd any factors (p>0.05, chisquar A
Cond isions : The pattern of patients´ descriptions for radiating pain of lumbar herniated intervertebral disc is either the word ´flasing´ or ´jerking´ . This is a useful description to diagnosis and plan for the treatment of lumbar herniated intervertebral disc.
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