Scientists probe link between emotions and spine alignment
NCT ID NCT07024121
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at how social and psychological factors, like beliefs and emotions, relate to spine posture in 150 adults with healthy spines. Participants fill out questionnaires and have a special X-ray to measure their spine alignment. The goal is to understand these connections, not to provide treatment.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 150 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Dec 2025
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- 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
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Inclusion Criteria: * Patient aged ≥ 18 years * Patient consulting at the investigational center (orthopaedic surgery department of Bordeaux University Hospital) who has undergone or will undergo an EOS® radiography as part of their treatment pathway (particularly in the context of a preoperative assessment for hip arthroplasty). * Affiliation with a medical insurance scheme under the French National Health Insurance. Exclusion Criteria: * Spinal fusion at any operated level, * Active or non-active spinal infection at any level, * Spinal fracture at any level, * Spinal deformity: * Scheuermann's disease (at least 3 adjacent vertebrae with wedge deformity and kyphosis increased by 5 degrees), * Scoliosis (Cobb angle \> 10 degrees and vertebral rotation). * History of Parkinson's disease * Active cancer or hematologic disorder with bone involvement * Any condition preventing the ability to respond to questionnaires with discernment * Neurological deficit requiring urgent surgical intervention * Hyperalgesic condition requiring urgent surgical intervention * Polytrauma with organ failure * Patient unable to understand study-related information * Patient under guardianship or curatorship, * Persons deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision, * Persons receiving psychiatric care under constraint, * Persons under guardianship, * Patient not affiliated with a social protection scheme
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