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Administrative data

NCT number NCT00124774
Other study ID # 04-269
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase Phase 3
First received July 27, 2005
Last updated March 28, 2008
Start date November 2004
Est. completion date April 2006

Study information

Verified date March 2008
Source Rijnstate Hospital
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority Netherlands: Medical Ethics Review Committee (METC)
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a prospective randomised double blind comparison trial. Fifty patients will be included, 25 in the nucleoplasty treatment group, 25 in the control group. The nucleoplasty group will undergo the nucleoplasty treatment. Control group will undergo a sham treatment. Both groups will undergo a standardised post-operative care program. The study hypothesis is that nucleoplasty will lead to earlier pain reduction as compared with the sham treatment.


Description:

This study will include patients with a contained lumbar hernia of at least 6 weeks existence in whom leg pain is the predominant complaint. Standard treatment for these patients is conservative, as an operation is not without risks and is not always effective. Furthermore, complaints will usually resolve in due time. However, the pain limits the patients in their daily activities, often for a prolonged period.

In this study, nucleoplasty will be compared with a sham treatment and not with conservative treatment, as the discography is thought to have some therapeutic effect.

The primary outcome will be the proportion of patients with at least a 2.5 points decrease on a ten-point Jensen VAS score 3 months after treatment.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 50
Est. completion date April 2006
Est. primary completion date
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group 18 Years to 60 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Mono radicular leg pain for at least 6 weeks as a result from a lumbar contained herniated disc. Leg pain must be of greater impact than concomitant back-pain

- Failing conservative treatment; analgesics and/or physical therapy. Failing means persisting pain leading to problems with daily activities.

- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): must be performed < 6 weeks before start treatment. On MRI signs of contained herniated disc, maximum 33% obliteration of the spinal channel. No signs of other significant spine pathology (see exclusion criteria).

- Neurological investigation by neurologist. Symptoms should be clinically related to the disc herniation level.

- Age >18 and < 60 years

- Mean leg pain on visual analogue scale (VAS) >50 mm (0 -100)

Exclusion Criteria:

- Herniated disc with more than 33% obliteration of the spinal channel.

- Annulus rupture with sequestrated herniated disc.

- Pain on VAS below 50 mm

- Pain existing longer than one year

- Less than 50% preserved disc height

- Conflict with social security/insurance.

- Major motor impairment as a result of the herniation, paresis grade 3 or more using a Medical Research Council (MRC) score

- Other degenerative causes of nerve root compression; ligament flavum or facet joint hypertrophy, degenerative spinal channel stenosis, loss of lumbar kyphosis, discopathy with signs of Schmorls' nodules and loss of nucleus pulposus signal. Other causes of radicular syndrome such as cancer, radiculitis or neural degeneration.

- Spinal instability (spondylolisthesis, spinal fracture or tumor)

- History of back surgery, chemonucleolysis or other intra discal procedures

- Coagulopathies or oral anti-coagulation therapy

- Infection

- Pregnancy

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double-Blind, Primary Purpose: Treatment


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Procedure:
Nucleoplasty


Locations

Country Name City State
Netherlands Rijnstate Hospital Arnhem

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Rijnstate Hospital ArthroCare Corporation, Maastricht University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Netherlands, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Decrease in Jensen visual analogue scale (VAS)-score for pain
Secondary McGill Pain Questionnaire-Dutch Language Version (MPQ-DLV)
Secondary Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale
Secondary Rand-36
Secondary EuroQoL (European Quality of Life Scale)
Secondary Costs (societal perspective)
Secondary Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI-DLV)
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