Comparison of the Order of Treatment in Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
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Official title
A Randomized Trial in Patients With Lumbar Spinal Stenosis, Comparing the Order of Treatment With Epidural Corticosteroid Injections and Physical Therapy
Brief summary
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Patients with back pain with spinal stenosis of the lower back will be asked to volunteer for this research study. These patients don't need immediate surgery for this problem. Treatment of this kind of back pain with spinal stenosis usually includes physical therapy exercises and steroid injections. Both treatments are usually helpful in patients with back pain with spinal stenosis. However, physicians and other healthcare providers don't know which treatment is better to give first. The purpose of this research is to answer that question. Patients enrolled in this study will receive both treatments: physical therapy (PT) and a steroid injection ("shot"). However, patients may get the shot first followed by PT, or they may have PT first, followed by the shot. Their time in this study will last up to 6 months, and there will be five outcome measurements (via visits or telephone). All study visits will take place at the Atlanta VA Medical Center (Atlanta VA). Investigators hope to enroll about 120 subjects from the Atlanta VA. Enrolled patients will be randomized using a randomization computer program.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02103543
- Recruitment status
- Withdrawn
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- Not listed
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- physical therapy Other
- lumbar interlaminar epidural steroid injection Procedure
- epidural steroid injection Drug
Other · Procedure · Drug
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 65 Years
- 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
- Dec 31, 2013
- Primary completion
- Dec 31, 2016
- Completion
- Nov 30, 2017
- Last update posted
- Feb 22, 2017
2014 – 2017
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center | Decatur | Georgia | 30033 | — |
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- Last update posted Feb 22, 2017 · Synced Sep 11, 2026
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