Prospective Study of Post Surgical Continued Spinal Pain Patients

Completed

Conditions studied: Low Back Pain, Cervical Pain, Neck Disorder, Low Back Disorder, Spine Injury

In brief

Continued spinal pain following spine surgery is reported in up to 50% of patients. Disability and pain following spine surgery occurs. Repeat back surgery outcomes on Workers Compensation low back patients demonstrated larger number of patients did not come back to work. Such continued pain has biopsychosocial health relationships between the physical and the psychological and social factors that are associated with back pain and disability. Chiropractic consultation by post surgical continued pain (PSCP) patients occurs but the frequency, clinical treatment and outcomes of chiropractic treatment are not sufficiently documented. Conditions reported in continued pscp patients seeking care following spinal fusion are reported as sacroiliac joint pain, internal disc disruption, and zygapohyseal joint pain. Sacroiliac joint pain is more common after fusion, while internal disc disruption is more common in nonfusion patients. Very few studies are available on the outcomes of PSCP patients seen by chiropractic. This study proposes to investigate the clinical outcomes of PSCP patients presenting with pain in lumbar, thoracic, and cervical regions and had prior surgery in the respective regions, seeking care from field Doctors of Chiropractic (DCs) certified in Cox flexion distraction decompression procedures.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05401682

Run by

Keiser University College of Chiropractic Medicine

People needed

61

Starts

2019-02-01

Expected to finish

2020-11-23

Last updated by the study team

2022-08-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 21 years and older.
• Have neck pain and associated radiating symptoms,thoracic pain, back pain and/or associated radiating symptoms and have undergone at least one spine surgery in the respective regions.
• Willing to undergo FDD chiropractic care in the painful regions of the spine.

You may not qualify if…

• Systemic arthropathies or other co-morbid conditions that may require care outside study and may affect ability to deliver study treatments or interfere with study ssessments;
• Inability to read or verbally comprehend English;
• Intention to move from the area during the next 3 months

Where it is running

• Keiser University — West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

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