Increasing Long-Term Physical Activity After Lumbar Spine Surgery

Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Lumbar Spine Degenerative Changes

Treatments: Behavioral: Education/Self-efficacy; Behavioral: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02611427

2015-142

Details and patient eligibility

About

After recuperating from low back surgery patients often perpetuate a sedentary lifestyle because they are concerned about injury and recurrent pain. The objective of this study is to test the feasibility of a program to increase lifestyle walking starting several months after low back surgery.

Full description

The primary objective of this RCT is to compare energy expenditure from walking between an experimental group that receives a multi-component intervention based on the Health Belief Model of Behavior Change versus a control group. Patients who had surgery for a degenerative condition will be randomized postop when their surgeons deem them orthopedically stable to increase walking (at about 3 months).

Enrollment: 350 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

• Inclusion Criteria: Patients will be eligible if they had lumbar surgery for a degenerative condition and their surgeon deems it safe for them to walk more.
• Exclusion Criteria: Patients will be excluded if they had any new cardiopulmonary symptoms since surgery.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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350 participants in 2 patient groups

Education/Self-efficacy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Booklet about physical activity, movement monitoring device, encouragement

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education/Self-efficacy

Education

Active Comparator group

Description:

Booklet about physical activity

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education