Actigraphic Assessment of Sleep Quality in Patients Before and After Lumbar Facet Denervation by Radio Frequency

Ozan Ganiüsmen; Ali Samancıoğlu; Güven Çıtak; Aykut Akseli

Authors

Ozan Ganiüsmen Sifa Universty, Department of Neurosurgery, İzmir, Turkey
Ali Samancıoğlu Buca Seyfi Demirsoy Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, İzmir, Turkey
Güven Çıtak Sifa Universty, Department of Neurosurgery, İzmir, Turkey
Aykut Akseli Buca Seyfi Demirsoy Hospital, Department of Emergency, İzmir, Turkey

Keywords:

Actigraphy, choronic pain, facet blockage, lumbar degenerative diseases, radiofrequancy denervation, sleep disturbance.

Abstract

We looked at the correlation between pain severity levels and sleep graphic analysesin patients with lumbar degenerative narrow canal disease before and after facet blockage by the percutaneous radio frequency method, using an actigraphy bracelet. Thirty patients were included in the study. Before the operation and in the first week and first month afterwards, we used an actigraphy device to provide objective analysis data alongside a number of methods of measurement which relied on subjective data.

A comparison was made between the objective actigraphic analyses and the subjective tests before the blockage and in the first week and first month afterwards. A statistically significant correlation was found between the analyses and the tests (p<0.005).

In these kinds of study, evaluating sleep disturbance along with pain yields objective results. The results obtained, which conformed to each other, showed that quality of life improved in a shortime. The actigraph is beneficial in this regard.

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