NCT02777450

Validity and Predictive Value of Manual Clinical Test to Identify Symptomatic Segments in Lumbar Chronic Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 93 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Zaragoza · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the predictor value of manual test in lumbar chronic patients blocks. Bibliography has show limited evidence of clinical predictors in lumbar blocks. Prior to lumbar facet block or medial branch denervation patient will be evaluated with manual provocative segmental movements, lumbar sagittal range of motion, manual segmental movement and slump neural test . Immediate, one and six months effect will be registered.

Detailed description

Clinical tests have sown limit evidence to predict efficacy of lumbar facet blocks. Segmental mobility tests have been included into the protocol to evaluate the efficacy of the lumbar blocks. Chronic low back pain patients will be tested to evaluate the predictor value of manual clinical tests. Patients from the "Lozano Blesa" Hospital pain clinic will be evaluate before, one month and six months after the lumbar facet block.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	lumbar facet block	injection of Levobupivacaine 0,25% and corticosteroids

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-12-01
• Primary completion: 2016-09-01
• Completion: 2017-03-01
• First posted: 2016-05-19
• Last updated: 2017-05-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain