Improvement of Low Back Pain After Decompression in Patients with Degenerative Spinal Canal Stenosis

NCT ID: NCT05791422

Last Updated: 2025-01-23

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

55 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-03-20

Study Completion Date

2024-12-20

Brief Summary

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Degenerative lumbar spine disease is a leading cause of disability in the world; it encompasses conditions such as spondylolisthesis, disc degeneration, and lumbar spinal stenosis. Those conditions present with a variety of clinical symptoms, including lower extremity pain, weakness, and low back pain (LBP) of varying levels of severity and in severe cases urine and stool incontinence may result.

Detailed Description

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Degenerative lumbar spine disease is a common indication for lumbar decompression surgery, especially in elderly patients. Moreover, Clinical studies prove that decompression is superior to conservative treatment with more favorable outcomes .

Surgical options for decompressing the lumbar spine vary from minimally invasive disc decompression to open laminectomy and foraminotomy.

The surgery aims to improve the quality of life in appropriately selected patients , in the form of improvement of walking distance, lower limbs pain, and other symptoms of spinal compression.

Few papers assessed LBP improvement after lumbar decompression surgery . The common practice that patients with degenerative canal stenosis and low back pain should undergo fusion surgery is not evidence based.

In this study the investigators aim to assess the improvement of clinical symptoms, especially low back pain and lower limbs pain in patients with degenerative lumbar spine disease after undergoing lumbar decompression surgery.

Conditions

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Low Back Pain Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients with degenerative lumbar spine disease admitted to Assiut University Hospitals, Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery between March 2023 and March 2024, to whom lumbar decompression surgery is indicated regardless of age or neurological symptoms.
2. Patients with grade one spondylolisthesis without evident instability can be added.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patients who are not available for follow up
2. Patients who refuse to participate in the study
3. Patients with evidence of instability
4. Previously operated patients on the same or adjacent segment.
Minimum Eligible Age

30 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Assiut University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Mahmoud Ahmed Fayek Amin

Principle Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Assuit university hospitals

Asyut, Asyut Governorate, Egypt

Site Status

Countries

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Egypt

References

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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Berthelot JM, Bertrand-Vasseur A, Rodet D, Maugars Y, Prost A. Lumbar spinal stenosis: a review. Rev Rhum Engl Ed. 1997 May;64(5):315-25.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Athiviraham A, Yen D. Is spinal stenosis better treated surgically or nonsurgically? Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2007 May;458:90-3. doi: 10.1097/BLO.0b013e31803799a9.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Benz RJ, Garfin SR. Current techniques of decompression of the lumbar spine. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2001 Mar;(384):75-81. doi: 10.1097/00003086-200103000-00010.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Sunderland G, Foster M, Dheerendra S, Pillay R. Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Lumbar Decompression Surgery: A Review of 2699 Cases. Global Spine J. 2021 Mar;11(2):172-179. doi: 10.1177/2192568219896541. Epub 2020 Jan 7.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Radcliff KE, Rihn J, Hilibrand A, DiIorio T, Tosteson T, Lurie JD, Zhao W, Vaccaro AR, Albert TJ, Weinstein JN. Does the duration of symptoms in patients with spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis affect outcomes?: analysis of the Spine Outcomes Research Trial. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2011 Dec 1;36(25):2197-210. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3182341edf.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Jones AD, Wafai AM, Easterbrook AL. Improvement in low back pain following spinal decompression: observational study of 119 patients. Eur Spine J. 2014 Jan;23(1):135-41. doi: 10.1007/s00586-013-2964-5. Epub 2013 Aug 21.

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Boonstra AM, Schiphorst Preuper HR, Reneman MF, Posthumus JB, Stewart RE. Reliability and validity of the visual analogue scale for disability in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Int J Rehabil Res. 2008 Jun;31(2):165-9. doi: 10.1097/MRR.0b013e3282fc0f93.

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Aburuz S, Bulatova N, Twalbeh M, Gazawi M. The validity and reliability of the Arabic version of the EQ-5D: a study from Jordan. Ann Saudi Med. 2009 Jul-Aug;29(4):304-8. doi: 10.4103/0256-4947.55313.

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Other Identifiers

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LBPSD

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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