Cost Effectiveness of OMT for Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNCT03532230
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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)
The specific aim of this study is to conduct a prospective, multicenter cohort study over four months to compare the cost of standard of allopathic care (control group, N=90) versus standard of care plus osteopathic manipulative treatment (experimental group, N=90) in a cohort of 180 consecutive patients seeking treatment for chronic low back pain at three osteopathic clinics and three allopathic medical clinics (offering only standard care) located in three different regions of the United States.
Study details
- Official title
- Prospective, Multi-center, Cohort Study of the Cost Effectiveness of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment for Chronic Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Lumbar Radiculopathy
- Lesion of Sciatic Nerve, Left Lower Limb
- Lesion of Sciatic Nerve, Right Lower Limb
- Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
- Lumbar Spondylosis
- Lumbago With Sciatica, Left Side
- Lumbago With Sciatica, Right Side
- Interventions
- Procedure: Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT)
- Sponsor
- Rowan University
- Collaborators
- American Osteopathic Association
- Start date
- 2019-03-22
- Primary completion
- 2020-02-28
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 84 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 3
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients diagnosed with chronic low back pain (lasting more than 3 months) who are between 18 to 84 years old will be eligible for the study. Inclusion criteria will be specified by the following the 2017/2018 International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) codes associated with chronic low back pain: * M54.16 Lumbar radiculopathy * G57.01 Lesion of sciatic nerve, right lower limb * G57.02 Lesion of sciatic nerve, left lower limb * M48.061 Lumbar spinal stenosis, without neurogenic claudication * M48.062 Lumbar spinal stenosis, with neurogenic claudication * M47.816 Lumbar spondylosis * M48.07 Lumbar spinal stenosis, lumbosacral * M54.41 Lumbago with sciatica, right side * M54.42 Lumbago with sciatica, left side Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with diabetic neuropathy, congenital lumbar and sacral abnormalities, lumbar fracture, multiple myeloma, metastatic bone disease, history of spinal and/or pain lasting less than three months will be excluded from the study.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03532230