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To proof patients' benefit of minimally invasive surgery in the dorsal cervical spine an apparatus to examine head-neck-coordination was constructed.

Two different surgical techniques will be compared:

Laminoplasty: open approach vs minimally invasive surgery (MIS)-approach; Foraminotomy: open approach vs MIS-approach. Each patient will be tested before surgery, postoperative as well as 3 and 12 month follow-up.

Hypothesis is that patients after MIS-approaches perform better in their head-neck-coordination as patients with open approaches.


Clinical Trial Description

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Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment


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NCT number NCT01988259
Study type Interventional
Source Schoen Klinik Hamburg Eilbek
Contact Ralph Kothe, MD
Phone 0049 40 2092
Email rkothe@Schoen-Kliniken.de
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date September 2013