View clinical trials related to Degenerative Disc Disease.
Filter by:In recent years there has been an increase in interest from surgeons in the use of synthetic bone graft substitutes to avoid the need of sourcing allograft or iliac crest autograft for use in spinal fusion procedures. This will be an open label, prospective, first in man, single-centre clinical study to evaluate the safety and performance of Osteo3 ZP Putty synthetic bone graft in TLIF procedures with instrumented PLF. Safety and performance data obtained in this clinical study will be used to estimate clinical success rates achieved with the use of Osteo3 ZP Putty synthetic bone graft in TLIF procedures. No comparative control group is intended. The study is expected to run for approximately three years with each subject being followed up for a two- year post-operative period. The target is to recruit approximately 17 subjects to this clinical study, allowing for some subject attrition to get 15 evaluable.
PerQdisc PMCF1 is a post-market clinical follow-up observational trial to follow subjects receiving a PerQdisc spinal implant for a duration of 5 years.
The study aims to identify metabolites present in intervertebral discs colonized by C. acnes from patients with low back pain and degenerative disc disease, correlating them with their clinical, radiological and demographic profiles.
This is a phase IV post-marketing study for MagnetOs Flex Matrix. MagnetOs Flex Matrix is a synthetic bone graft extender product that is routinely used by surgeons as a treatment for patients with degenerative disc disease and undergoing spinal fusion surgery. In this study, MagnetOs Flex Matrix will be used according to the latest U.S. Instructions For Use, specifically as a bone graft extender mixed with autograft in a 1:1 vol.% in the posterolateral spine. A cellular based allograft will also be used according to its latest IFU approved in the US. Specifically, the cellular based allograft is an allograft intended for the treatment of musculoskeletal defects.
Opioid overuse is a widespread public health crisis in the United States with increasing rates of addiction and overdose deaths from prescription opioids. Reducing the need for opiate analgesics in the post-operative setting has become a high priority in minimizing long-term opioid use in surgical patients. This study will serve to demonstrate the efficacy of the addition of regional analgesic techniques in reducing post-operative opioid requirements in patients undergoing common lumbar spinal surgical procedures.
This study is designed to evaluate clinical outcomes and spine fusion rates for patients undergoing transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion using the CONDUIT 3D printed titanium TLIF cage.
A study designed to treat patients with back pain associated with degenerative lumbar disc disease.
In this study, we apply brain MR imaging techniques at 3 Tesla to assess pain-relevant processing in patients with disc degenerative disease (DDD) scheduled for back surgery and age- and gender-matched controls without back pain. Data collection pre-surgery is performed over two days: On the first day, all participants undergo a battery of questionnaires relevant for individuals with chronic pain and pain sensitivity testing, including temporal summation and pressure pain thresholds. On the second day, participants undergo a MRI protocol, which includes functional MRI (fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging to assess microstructural properties and structural connectivity. During fMRI, an experimental pressure pain paradigm is performed at the calf i.e. a location not connected to patients' chronic pain condition. Instead, the experimental pain paradigm serves as a condition to test processing of noxious stimulation unrelated to patients' experienced chronic pain. The noxious input pressure is individually calibrated to 50 on a 0-100 VAS scale to ensure that individual pain perceptions, despite different pressure intensities, are comparable across participants. The sensory stimulation will consist of a low standardized pressure intensity (150kPa). In an additional fMRI paradigm, participants do not receive stimulation but are instructed to continuously rate fluctuating spontaneous ongoing back pain (DDD) or perceived unpleasantness (controls). This project aims at investigating measures of brain architecture, neural response connected with evoked pain, connectivity (structural and functional) and pain-relevant psychometrics and questionnaire data in disc degenerative disease patients scheduled for back surgery. Specifically, MRI is performed to test whether i) patients display differences in properties of the mesolimbic circuit compared to healthy individuals and ii) behavioural as well as clinical characteristics related to the acquired MRI markers. This study is intended to serve as a baseline in a longitudinal project testing associations with between findings at baseline and following surgery (fusion/disc implants).
Modic changes have been associated with low back pain in many clinical studies and are often considered a part of the disc degeneration process. Modic type 1 change is considered an inflammatory process. The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injections in Modic type-1 changes.
This is a prospective, multi-center study of subjects who will undergo spinal fusion surgery utilizing Stryker Interbody Systems that require post market clinical follow up (PMCF). The primary study hypothesis for each system is that the mean change in NDI (cervical) or ODI (lumbar) from baseline to Month 12 < -10, that is, the mean improvement exceeds 10 points. In supporting analysis, the same hypotheses will be tested for mean change from baseline to 24 months to demonstrate durability of effectiveness.