Chronic Low Back Pain and Neck Pain Prospective Study
CompletedNCT04883476
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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)
This prospective observation multifaceted study aims: 1. To perform a large prospective study and identify multiple "omics" biomarkers in chronic low back pain 2. To validate identified biomarkers for progression of acute to chronic low back pain 3. To validate identified biomarkers and test their heritability/validity in additional cohorts 4. To identify pathways and relevant individual variations for generation, propagation and subsidence of pain 5. To identify new imaging biomarkers related to chronic low back pain 6. To develop a registry of neck and low back pain subjects to help monitor the health-care management and utility to improve protocols and patient outcomes.
Study details
- Official title
- A Prospective Study to Identify New "Omics" and Imaging Biomarkers of Chronic/Persistent Neck and Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Observation study only
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
- Start date
- 2015-05-01
- Primary completion
- 2025-06-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Hong Kong
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Neck and/or low back pain * New cases\* * Males and females * 18 years or older * Willing to participate in the study short- and long-term Exclusion Criteria: * Previous spine surgery * Cognitively impaired * Drug addiction * Incarceration (prisoner) * History of infections, tumors, chronic inflammation (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis) * Congenital/syndromal * Pregnant females * Diagnosed psychological impairment * Inability to read or write
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04883476