Developing better care for the elderly patients with walking disability due to degenerative lumbar spine stenosis

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Musculoskeletal Diseases: Degenerative lumbar spine stenosis; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Degenerative lumbar spine stenosis

• Registration Number: ISRCTN35836727
• Lead Sponsor: Record Provided by the NHSTCT Register - 2006 Update - Department of Health

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2006-09-29
• Last Update Posted: 17 October 2016

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients 65 and over
2. Unilateral or bilateral neurogenic claudication (NC), ie exercise induced leg pain on walking, relieved in sitting
3. Patient reported limitation of walking tolerance due to symptoms of NC

Exclusion Criteria

1. Cognitive impairment preventing full understanding or participation in the study
2. Evidence of medical conditions such as hip/leg pathology or peripheral vascular disease, which may mimic NC or prevent participation in a shuttle walking test
3. Severe or worsening neurological status
4. Signs/symptoms of cauda equina compression, inflammatory joint disease, signs/symptoms of sinister pathology (unexplained weight loss, unremitting/night-time pain, history of cancer), which may require urgent surgical opinion. This will be determined through subjective and objective examination of patients by the recruiting researcher at the point of screening
5. Exclusion criterion for Home Trial Pilot phase only: previous use of walking aid

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified