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Rehabilitation With Empowered STrategies to Optimize REcovery

NCT07406997 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2026-06-01

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Summary

The main goal of this clinical trial is to understand the benefits of remotely delivered Empowered Relief in patients undergoing lumbar spine surgery. The main question the trial aims to answer is:

Does a postoperative behavioral intervention, Empowered Relief, performed early after back surgery have a measurable impact on postoperative outcomes?

Additional questions are whether changes in pain catastrophizing are related to improvements in outcomes and whether preoperative pain catastrophizing is a moderator of response to treatment.

Researchers will compare remotely delivered Empowered Relief to remotely delivered education to see if Empowered Relief helps patients manage their pain and functional limitations after back surgery.

Participants will:

* Complete one group session of remotely delivered Empowered Relief or Education after back surgery
* Complete surveys before surgery and 3- and 6-months after surgery

Conditions

  • Lumbar Spine Degenerative Changes
  • Lumbar Spine Surgery

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Empowered Relief

Empowered Relief (ER) is a single-session group class that has two main components of pain neuroscience education and pain coping skills based on cognitive-behavioral principles.

OTHER

Education

Education program is a single-session group class that includes information on how to manage pain and disability, prevent future injury and stay healthy after back surgery.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-02-24
Primary Completion
2029-02-28
Completion
2029-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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