Rehabilitation Post Lumbar Microdiscectomy

University of Southern California

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 1

Conditions

Low Back Disorder

Treatments

Procedure: Other: Exercise

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00306423

#025027

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

Exercise

Enrollment

100 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 60 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

18-60 years old
Single level lumbar microdiscectomy

Exclusion criteria

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