Rehabilitation Post Lumbar Microdiscectomy
Completed · Phase 1
Conditions studied: Low Back Disorder
In brief
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a rehabilitation program following lumbar microdiscectomy influences short-term (4 months) and long-term (up to 5 years)outcomes in quality of life, activity and endurance.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00306423
- Run by
- University of Southern California
- People needed
- 100
- Starts
- 2003-06-01
- Expected to finish
- 2014-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-04-04
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- 18-60 years old
- Single level lumbar microdiscectomy
You may not qualify if…
- Potential subjects will be excluded is they exhibit symptoms suggestive of facet arthrosis or neurogenic claudication, or if their plain radiographs showed more than 50 percent loss of disc height at the relevant level.
- Patients in whom the protrusion occupied more than 50 percent of the sagittal diameter of the spinal canal or in whom sequestrated fragments were seen on MRI will also be excluded.
- Other exclusion criteria will include:
- Previous back surgeries
- Presence of any other concurrent foot pathology besides leg and low back pain and associated single level disc injury
- Nervous system problems (e.g., stroke, dementia, seizures)
- Cognitive dysfunction (e.g. TBI, CVA, Alzheimer's)
- Uncontrolled cardiovascular disease
- Evidence of cord compression
- Uncontrolled hypertension
- Infection
- Severe respiratory disease
- Pregnancy
- Rheumatic joint disease
- Peripheral vascular disease with sensory loss of the foot
- Any condition that the subject identifies that might limit participation in physical activity
Where it is running
- University of Southern California — Los Angeles, California, United States
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