Intensive home traction for acute and subacute patients with sciatica
- Conditions
- M51.2Other specified intervertebral disc displacement
- Registration Number
- DRKS00004250
- Lead Sponsor
- IVERSITÄTSKLINIKUM FREIBURGAkademie für medizinische Berufe
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting stopped after recruiting started
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1
a)Age 18 - 65, male / female
b)Low Back Pain with nerve root involvement
c)symptom duration 4 - 12 weeks before inclusion in study
d)leg pain > back pain
e)leg pain > or = 4/10 VAS
f)No centralization of symptoms with repeated movement testing or static loading strategies
- preceded spine surgery
- known serious spine patholohgies: cancer, fracture, infectious disease, serious osteoporosis, systemic disease
- other serious pathologies
- epidural injection in the preceding two weeks
- current pregnancy
- Involvement of central nervous system: including cauda equina syndrome or existence pathologic reflexes
- known inability to comply with the treatment protocol
- chronic LBP (> 3 months)
- centralization of symptoms with repeated movement testing or static loading strategies
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method German version of Oswestry Disability Index Deutsche Version des Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) <br>after 2 weeks / 6 weeks / 1 year<br><br>Success is defined as 50 % improvement in ODI.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - German version of Fear Avoidance Belief Questionaire (FABQ) (Staerkle et al. 2004)<br>- Pain location - determined by templates (Werneke und Hart 2004, Werneke und Hart 2003)<br>- Intensity of back pain and leg pain determined Visual Analog Scale (Childs et al. 2005)<br>- Neurological signs and symptoms<br>- Days of sick leave since entering the study<br>- Use of medication <br>- Patient specific functional outcome score (Bogduk 2007, Stratford 1995)