Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) - Intervertebral Disc Herniation
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Official title
Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): A Multicenter Randomized Trial for Intervertebral Disc Herniation (IDH)
Brief summary
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This study tests the effectiveness of different treatments for the three most commonly diagnosed lumbar (lower) spine conditions. The purpose of the study is to learn which of two commonly prescribed treatments (surgery and non-surgical therapy) works better for specific types of low back pain. In this part of the study, people with lumbar intervertebral disc herniation (damage to the tissue between the bones of the lower spine, or backbone) will receive either discectomy (surgical removal of herniated disc material) or non-surgical treatment. This study does not cover the cost of treatment.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00000410
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Enrollment
- 501 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Feb 29, 2000
- Primary completion
- Mar 31, 2015
- Completion
- Mar 31, 2015
- Last update posted
- Aug 3, 2015
2000 – 2015
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 13
- U.S. states
- 11
- U.S. cities
- 12
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser Permanente Spine Care Program | Oakland | California | 94612 | — |
| University of California, San Francisco | San Francisco | California | 94143-0728 | — |
| The Emory Clinic, Emory University | Decatur | Georgia | 30033 | — |
| Rush-Presbyterian, St. Luke's Medical Center | Chicago | Illinois | 60612-3833 | — |
| Maine Spine & Rehabilitation | Scarborough | Maine | 04074 | — |
| William Beaumont Hospital | Royal Oak | Michigan | 48073-9952 | — |
| Washington University | St Louis | Missouri | 63110 | — |
| Nebraska Foundation for Spinal Research | Omaha | Nebraska | 68154-4438 | — |
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center - Spine Center | Lebanon | New Hampshire | 03756 | — |
| New York University, The Hospital for Joint Diseases | New York | New York | 10003 | — |
| Hospital for Special Surgery | New York | New York | 10021 | — |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland | Ohio | 44106 | — |
| Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson Hospital | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19107-4216 | — |
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- Public field values for ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00000410, including study identification, conditions, interventions, eligibility (age, sex, healthy volunteer), timeline, and U.S. site list.
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- Last update posted Aug 3, 2015 · Synced Sep 5, 2026
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