NCT02611427

Increasing Long-Term Physical Activity After Lumbar Spine Surgery

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 260 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital for Special Surgery, New York · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

After recuperating from low back surgery patients often perpetuate a sedentary lifestyle because they are concerned about injury and recurrent pain. The objective of this study is to test the feasibility of a program to increase lifestyle walking starting several months after low back surgery.

Detailed description

The primary objective of this RCT is to compare energy expenditure from walking between an experimental group that receives a multi-component intervention based on the Health Belief Model of Behavior Change versus a control group. Patients who had surgery for a degenerative condition will be randomized postop when their surgeons deem them orthopedically stable to increase walking (at about 3 months).

Conditions

• Lumbar Spine Degenerative Changes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Education/Self-efficacy	The education/self-efficacy group will 1) receive information about benefits of physical activity and national activity guidelines, 2) receive instruction on how to increase lifestyle walking, 3) use movement monitoring devices, 4) make a walking contract and 5) receive interval contract-directed encouragement from study personnel.
BEHAVIORAL	Education	The education group will receive information about safe physical activity.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-11-11
• Primary completion: 2026-06-01
• Completion: 2026-06-01
• First posted: 2015-11-20
• Last updated: 2025-10-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States