NCT03388983

Effectiveness of Prehabilitation for Patients Undergoing Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Surgery

Status unknown NA Last updated 10 February 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing 6-week prehabilitation in Lumbar Spinal Stenosis in 120 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

10 August 2018

Primary endpoint
31 March 2022

30 June 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	triple
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	120
Start date	10 August 2018
Primary completion	31 March 2022
Estimated completion	30 June 2022
Sites	1 location across Hong Kong

Drugs / interventions tested

• 6-week prehabilitation

Conditions studied

• Lumbar Spinal Stenosis — all drugs for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis →
• Prehabilitation — all drugs for Prehabilitation →

Sponsor

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Who can join

50 and older, any sex, with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis or Prehabilitation. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a common spinal disease that leads to pain and disability. LSS is defined as lower extremity and perineal symptoms (e.g. intermittent neurogenic claudication/numbness) that may occur with or without low back pain and that is attributed to congenital or acquired narrowing of space available for the neural and vascular tissues in the lumbar spine. Patients with LSS,who do not respond to conservative treatments after 3 months or more, will be eligible for spinal decompression surgery in order to improve functional outcomes.

While various studies have shown that preoperative exercises (prehabilitation) may benefit patients receiving different surgeries (e.g, abdominal surgery, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction), little is known regarding the effect of prehabilitation for patients undergoing LSS surgery.

The aim of the current randomized controlled trial is to compare the effectiveness of a 6-week prehabilitation program with usual preoperative care in improving multiple outcomes of patients undergoing LSS surgery at baseline, 6 weeks after baseline evaluation, and at 3 and 6 months postoperatively. It is hypothesized that prehabilitation will yield significantly better pre- and post-operative clinical outcomes as compared to usual preoperative care.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. The Concerns and Experiences of Patients With Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Regarding Prehabilitation and Recovery After Spine Surgery: A Qualitative Study.
   Lam AKH, Fung OHY, Kwan C, Cheung JPY, et al · · 2022 · cited 13× · PMID 36545515 · DOI 10.1016/j.arrct.2022.100227