Could a Simple Information Booklet Modify Low Back Pain Patients Beliefs After Lumbar Discectomy?

University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 3

Conditions: Back Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Assessment of the Your Back Operation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00761111

CHU63-0023

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to translate and assess an evidence based educational booklet on low back pain patients beliefs after lumbar discectomy.

Full description

A translation / back-translation of the Your back operation was performed and a before / after prospective study was realized. Main outcome assessment was the Quebec Questionnaire. Demographic data, personal medical sciatica pain history, graduation of the whole subject were recorded. Acceptability of the booklet was also measured.

Enrollment: 140 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• A common monoradicular sciatica on a slipped disc with a clinical radio agreement requiring a surgical treatment, after failure of an good ambulatory treatment carried out, one duration of evolution higher than four weeks at naive subjects of any rachidian intervention

Exclusion criteria

• People presenting a cruralgia, a secondary sciatica (epiduritis, osseous metastasis...) or without relationship with a slipped disc (spinal stenosis), an lesion biradicular, an horse tail syndrome, an important motor deficit (muscular testing < 3)
• Cognitive, auditive, major visual disorders or any subject which does not have a good comprehension of spoken French and/or writing, or having recourse to a third for reading and supplementing a document
• Subjects presenting a peripheral neuropathy, a severe and evolved diabetes, a cardiac insufficiency, dialysed subject
• People observing a treatment which included psychotropics for more than three months (other that light hypnotic) because of the disturbances of vigilance and memory