Back surgery may not end nerve pain, new study shows
NCT ID NCT06763224
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looked at 39 people having lower back surgery for a herniated disc or spinal stenosis. Researchers checked for nerve pain before surgery and again 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after using a simple questionnaire. The goal was to see how common nerve pain is after surgery and how it changes over time.
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Study facts
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- Participants
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39 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jul 2024
- Finished
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Sep 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
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Who is studied
Primary care clinic
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion criteria: * Patients admitted for scheduled primary lumbar spine surgery without pedicle osteosynthesis or interbody cage. * Pathology concerned by programmed surgery: herniated disc or lumbar spinal stenosis, uncomplicated by motor or sphincter deficits. * Delay between 1st painful symptoms and surgery \> 48h. Non-inclusion criteria: * Surgery scheduled within 48 hours of onset of symptoms. * Presence of cauda equina syndrome * Presence of motor-radicular deficit * Patients with neurological pathology prior to surgery * Major cognitive or sensory disorders preventing completion of the self-questionnaire * Patients under guardianship * Patients not covered by French social security. * Patients who develop an identified neurological pathology after surgery, regardless of the initial surgery (e.g. multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, etc.).
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Hôpitaux Civils de Colmar
Colmar, 68024, France
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