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UNKNOWN

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

Lead Sponsor:

University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

Conditions:

Back Pain

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-80 years

Phase:

PHASE3

Brief Summary

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

Detailed 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, p...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • 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

  • 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

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

June 1 2007

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

Estimated Enrollment :

140 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00761111

Start Date

June 1 2007

Last Update

October 8 2008

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