ReviewNeurospine2018
Superior and Middle Cluneal Nerve Entrapment as a Cause of Low Back Pain.
Review in Neurospine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05423132 (Study on the Efficacy of Infiltration of Upper Cluneal Nerves in Chronic Pain Related to Cluneal Syndrome), which is not on this map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Study on the Efficacy of Infiltration of Upper Cluneal Nerves in Chronic Pain Related to Cluneal Syndrome
Who cites it
33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 93 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cluneal nerve entrapment decompression: a systematic review of 236 surgical cases.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026Pooled it
- Superior Cluneal Nerve Entrapment: An Additional Consideration in Low Back Pain.Journal of orthopaedic case reports · 2026Article
- Establishment and Validation of a Risk Prediction Model for the Superior Cluneal Nerve Entrapment Neuropathy after Thoracic or Lumbar Fracture: A Case-Comparative Study.Journal of pain research · 2026Article
- Treatment outcomes for cluneal neuropathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Brain & spine · 2026Review
- Novel muscular anomaly along the iliac crest: Innervation from the superior cluneal nerves and topographical relationship to the thoracolumbar fascia.Anatomical science international · 2025Article
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- Peripheral superior cluneal nerve stimulation for intractable low back pain: Combined fluoroscopy and ultrasound technique, A case series.Interventional pain medicine · 2025Article
- Factors in Surgical Placement and System Design to Reduce Pocket Awareness and Optimize the User Experience of Spinal Cord Stimulators - A Comprehensive Review.Journal of pain research · 2025Review
- Ultrasound-Guided Perineural Dextrose Injection for Superior Cluneal Nerve Neuropathy Treatment.Cureus · 2024Article
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- Effect of exercise on cluneal nerve entrapment neuropathy: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2024Article
- Relationships between the global symptom score and electrophysiological findings after surgical release for carpal tunnel syndrome: Indications and outcomes.Acta neurochirurgica · 2024Article
- Middle cluneal nerve entrapment sites in the surgical field.Acta neurochirurgica · 2024Article
- Identification and decompression of superior cluneal nerve implicated in low back pain.Acta neurochirurgica · 2024Article
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- Ultrasound-Guided Superior Cluneal Nerve Block: A Narrative Review.Journal of pain research · 2024Review
- Long-term outcome after surgery for middle cluneal nerve entrapment neuropathy.Acta neurochirurgica · 2023Article
- Superior Cluneal Nerve Entrapment as a Cause of Low Back Pain Refractory to Sacroiliac Joint Fusion: A Case Report.Cureus · 2023Article
- Enhancing diagnosis and treatment of superior cluneal nerve entrapment: cadaveric, clinical, and ultrasonographic insights.Insights into imaging · 2023Article
- Narrative Review of Pathophysiology and Endoscopic Management of Basivertebral and Sinuvertebral Neuropathy for Chronic Back Pain.Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society · 2023Article
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Low back pain (LBP) is encountered frequently in clinical practice. The superior and the middle cluneal nerves (SCN and MCN) are cutaneous nerves that are purely sensory. They dominate sensation in the lumbar area and the buttocks, and their entrapment around the iliac crest can elicit LBP. The reported incidence of SCN entrapment (SCN-E) in patients with LBP is 1.6%-14%. SCN-E and MCN entrapment (MCN-E) produce leg symptoms in 47%-84% and 82% of LBP patients, respectively. In such patients, pain is exacerbated by lumbar movements, and the symptoms mimic radiculopathy due to lumbar disorder. As patients with failed back surgery or Parkinson disease also report LBP, the differential diagnosis must include those possibilities. The identification of the trigger point at the entrapment site and the disappearance of symptoms after nerve block are diagnostically important. LBP due to SCN-E or MCN-E can be treated less invasively by nerve block and neurolysis. Spinal surgeons treating patients with LBP should consider SCN-E or MCN-E.
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