IFN-γ Correlations with Pain Assessment, Radiological Findings, and Clinical Intercourse in Patient after Lumbar Microdiscectomy: Preliminary Study

Table 2

Subjective pain/disability evaluation and IFN-γ level before and after surgery.

		Before surgery	After surgery
		NRS back	0-10				0.029
NRS leg	0-10			<0.001
PRI	0-35			0.001
PPI	0-5			0.004
ODI	0-50			<0.001
IFN-γ	pg/ml			0.017

NRS back and leg: Numeric Rating Scale; PRI: Pain Rating Index; PPI: Present Pain Intensity; ODI: Oswestry Disability Index; Wilcoxon rank test for dependent samples with highlighted in bold.