Increasing Long-Term Physical Activity After Lumbar Spine Surgery



Status:Recruiting
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - 80
Updated:2/3/2019
Start Date:November 11, 2015
End Date:October 2020
Contact:Carol A Mancuso, MD
Email:mancusoc@hss.edu
Phone:212-774-7508

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Trial Summary
Trial Overview
Inclusion Criteria
After recuperating from low back surgery patients often perpetuate a sedentary lifestyle
because they are concerned about injury and recurrent pain. The objective of this study is to
test the feasibility of a program to increase lifestyle walking starting several months after
low back surgery.

The primary objective of this RCT is to compare energy expenditure from walking between an
experimental group that receives a multi-component intervention based on the Health Belief
Model of Behavior Change versus a control group. Patients who had surgery for a degenerative
condition will be randomized postop when their surgeons deem them orthopedically stable to
increase walking (at about 3 months).

- Inclusion Criteria: Patients will be eligible if they had lumbar surgery for a
degenerative condition and their surgeon deems it safe for them to walk more.

- Exclusion Criteria: Patients will be excluded if they had any new cardiopulmonary
symptoms since surgery.
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Hospital for Special Surgery
535 E 70th St
New York, New York 10021
(212) 606-1000
Phone: 212-774-7508
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