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Predictors of Axial Pain Improvement After Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion
Led by Medical University of Warsaw · Updated on 2025-03-26
60
Participants Needed
2
Research Sites
158 weeks
Total Duration
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What this Trial Is About
Neck pain is a common, multifactorial condition. In the case of degenerative cervical spinal disease, it can result from changes in the intervertebral discs, muscles, intervertebral joints, or sagittal imbalance. Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is a currently widely accepted procedure for treating cervical degenerative spine disease, with a high patient satisfaction rate. In the current state of knowledge, it is not used for treating axial neck pain, but rather in cases of discopathy causing spinal myelopathy or cervical radiculopathy, in which neck pain often coexists or predominates. The current literature provides ample evidence of the significant effect of ACDF in improving axial neck pain in the conditions mentioned previously. However, little information exists on which patients achieve improvement. The aim of this prospective study is to analyze the outcomes of ACDF in patients with neck pain and to identify predictors of reduction in axial neck pain after ACDF.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Predictors of Axial Pain Improvement After Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Ability to provide informed consent
- Patients qualified for one- or two-level ACDF for degenerative cervical pathology
You will not qualify if you...
- Previous cervical spine surgery
- Previous cervical spine trauma
- Diseases causing neck pain such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, polymyalgia rheumatica, myositis, seronegative inflammatory diseases, and fibromyalgia
- Drug abuse
- Myelopathy
- Spinal infection
- Visual Analog Scale neck pain score less than 3
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 2 locations
1
Department of Orthopaedics, J. Dietl Specialist Hospital
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland, 30-119
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Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Warsaw
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, 02-097
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Research Team
J
Jan Chrzanowski, MD
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Masking
N/A
Allocation
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Model
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Primary Purpose
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Number of Arms
0
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