TY - BOOK AU - Amr Helmy Abdelhalim AU - Mohammed Ahmed Ali Wahdan , AU - Mohammed Alaa Eldin Thabet , AU - Mohammed Shehab Saad Zaghlool , TI - Management of sacroiliac pain associated with fixation of lower lumbar vertebrae / PY - 2020/// CY - Cairo : PB - Amr Helmy Abdelhalim , KW - Lumbar fixation KW - Pain management KW - Sacroiliac joint N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Neurosurgery; Issued also as CD N2 - Sacroiliac joint (SIJ) pain is a common morbidity which occurs post lumbar fixation surgery. In our study, 40 patients were studied to determine the incidence and management of sacroiliac pain post lumbar fixation. Age, sex, body mass index (BMI) were found to be factors affecting the incidence of pain, BMI was found to be the main factor affecting the incidence of pain. We concluded that the majority of cases developed sacroiliac pain post-operative. Conservative management is the first line of treatment which included bed rest, analgesics and physiotherapy. Patients who did not improve by conservative management required sacroiliac injection with analgesics and corticosteroids UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -