| Baseline | Treatment period | Follow-up period | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0Â week | 1Â week | 2Â week | 3Â week | 4Â week | 5Â week | ||||||||
Measures | VAS | √ | √ |  | √ |  | √ | ||||||
 | Pain Vision | √ | √ |  | √ |  | √ | ||||||
 | SF-MPQ | √ | √ |  | √ |  | √ | ||||||
 | ODI | √ | √ |  | √ |  | √ | ||||||
 | Safety | √ |  |  | √ |  |  | ||||||
Treatments | Interlaminar epidural steroid injection |  | √ | √ | √ |  |  | ||||||
 | acupuncture |  | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |  |  |