Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): Spinal Stenosis
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Official title
Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): A Multicenter Trial for Spinal Stenosis (SpS)
Brief summary
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This study tests the effectiveness of different treatments for the three most commonly diagnosed conditions of the lower backbone (lumbar spine). The purpose is to learn which of two commonly prescribed treatments (surgery and nonsurgical therapy) works better for specific types of low back pain. Low back pain is one of the most widely experienced health problems in the United States and the world. It is the second most frequent condition, after the common cold, for which people see a doctor or lose days from work. In this part of the study, we will treat patients with spinal stenosis (a narrowing of spaces in the backbone that results in pressure on the spinal cord and/or nerve roots) with a type of surgery known as posterior decompressive laminectomy or with nonsurgical methods. This study does not cover the cost of treatment.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00000411
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Enrollment
- 289 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 (UCSF) | San Francisco | California | 94143-0728 | — |
| Emory University, The Emory Clinic | 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 University | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19107-4216 | — |
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- Last update posted Aug 3, 2015 · Synced Sep 6, 2026
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