Active clinical trials for "Intervertebral Disc Degeneration"

The purpose of this open, multi-center study is to prospectively collect outcome data on patients who are having lumbar spinal fusion surgery with implantation of the SpineLink® system.

The purpose of the study is to gather clinical and radiographic outcome data from patients who have undergone treatment with an expandable interbody spacer.

To assess the clinical and radiographic outcomes through 5-years following treatment with CHARITÉ™ Artificial Disc vs. the BAK Cage for treatment of degenerative disc disease at one level (L4-S1).

This is an observational study to assess clinical outcomes in patients who undergo spinal fusion. Patients who are already scheduled for spinal fusion will enroll in the study. Information about prior therapies will be collected, and then patients will be followed to see how they do after spinal fusion. This study will help researchers better understand the natural course of patients who patients who undergo spinal fusion surgery.

Patients diagnosed with single-level degenerative disc disease (DDD) of the lumbar spine undergo a posterior decompression followed by a fusion complete with a spinous process plate, graft, and a biologic.

The primary objective is to determine the validity of the Six-Minute-Walking Test (6WT) and Timed-Up and Go (TUG) test to measure objective functional impairment (OFI) in patients undergoing either interlaminar epidural steroid injection (ESI) or transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TFESI) for lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD)

Prospective study, not randomised, non-interventional, monocentric, investigating an intended patient cohort of 60 patients already operated on the cervical spine due to degenerative disc disease of the cervical spine down to the first thoracolumbar VBR (C2-T1), who received a Quintex plate for stabilisation

INTRODUCTION The expandable cage technology is not new, but several questions remain under-studied. Among them, there are the sagittal balance, the subsidence and the adjacent disc degeneration. Moreover, assessment of the correction and kyphosis regardless of the physiological angles can possibly lead to calculation bias. The objective of this study was to assess the extent to which the functional outcomes were correlated to the quality of the reduction, within a homogeneous series of lumbar vertebral body reconstruction with expandable cages for trauma. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-seven patients with a mean follow-up of 3.9 years were retrospectively analyzed. The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) was the main outcome and its association with other variables was sought. The local kyphosis and the regional traumatic angle using Stagnara's physiological angles were measured. The lumbar lordosis (LL) was compared to the Pelvic Incidence (PI). The subsidence of the cage and the adjacent disc degeneration (using the UCLA grading score) were quantified. Bone quality was assessed through the Hounsfield Unit of the vertebral body.

Patients are candidates for single-level Artificial Disc Replacement between C3 and C7 who suffer from cervical symptomatic degenerative disc disease. A maximum of 200 cases will be enrolled into the study. An 18-month recruitment period is planned with a 4-year postoperative follow-up period for each subject. Thus, it is anticipated that the study will require a minimum of 5.5 years. Patients will be assessed preoperatively, intraoperatively, prior to discharge and again at 6 weeks, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years and 4 years postoperatively from the date of surgery.

The five-repetition sit-to-stand test (5R-STS) has been used in many medical disciplines, but has never been correlated with or validated in regard to degenerative spinal diseases. The investigators aim to assess the possibility of using the standardized 5R-STS as an objective measure of functional impairment and pain severity in patients with degenerative lumbar spinal diseases.