A Comparative Study: Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression and Spinal Manipulative Therapy- Utilizing a Quantifiable Musculoskeletal Functional Assessment Risk Analysis Tool (MSDR®) in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT00732394
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
To administer the MSDR® (Musculoskeletal Disorder Reporting) instrument to document the musculoskeletal profile of patients with chronic low back pain, a prospective, non-randomized, multicenter treatment trial
Study details
- Official title
- This is a Study is for the Purpose of Quantifying Function of the Back and Lower Extremities, and to Assess the Inter-Regional Biomechanical Relationships of the Neck, Upper Extremities, Back, and Lower Extremities in Patients Suffering From Chronic Low Back Pain.
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: MSDR
- Sponsor
- MedAppraise, Inc.
- Start date
- 2008-08
- Primary completion
- 2009-08
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Must have Informed Consent Signed * Lumbar Disc Herniations under 5mm without Sequestered Fragments * Lumbar Disc Bulging * Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease (mild and moderate severity) * Non-pregnant Females and Males suffering from Chronic Low Back Pain from 18 to 65 years of age * Segmental Dysfunction Secondary to Dyskinesia * Unresolved Nerve Entrapment Syndrome * Patients must be able to comply with study protocol * Joint Fixation Syndrome * Premenopausal Female Patients, excluding patients who have undergone a hysterectomy, oophorectomy, or tubal ligation, must have one of the following methods of contraception and must have a negative serum or urine b-HCG pregnancy test performed within 48 hours before initiating protocol specified treatment. Exclusion Criteria: * Contraindications to Spinal Manipulative Therapy * Lumbar Canal Stenosis resulting in significant neurological comprimise * Any Spinal Cord Compression resulting in significant neurological comprimise * Cauda Equina Syndrome * Infection * Osteomyelitis -\>65 years of age * History of Back or Neck Surgery * Acute Arthritis * Signs or Symptoms of Arterial Aneurysm * History of Active Cancer with Bone Metastasis * Widespread Staphyloccal and/or Strepococcal Infection * Acute Gout * Serious unstable medical illness such as cardiovascular, renal, respiratory, endocrine, gastrointestinal, or psychiatric. * Unstable Spondylosis, Spondylolisthesis, or Spondylolysis * Prior adverse experience with Spinal Manipulation Therapy * Uncontrolled Diabetic Neuropathy * Gonorreal Spinal Arthritis * Tuberculosis to the Bone * Maligancy with Metatasis to Bone * Excessive Spinal Osteoporosis * Osteomalacia * Ankylosis * Syphlitic Articular or Peri-Articular Lesions * Active Low Back Injury Resulting from a Motor Vehicle Accident or Work Related Injury
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00732394