An interventional study of Pain treatment in Degenerative Disc Disease(DDD), sponsored by Spinal Simplicity LLC. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in Canada. Open to participants aged 22 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-06.
Sponsored by Spinal Simplicity LLC · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
A single site, prospective study to evaluate the safety and performance of the Intralink device in participants with chronic or recurrent non-radicular discogenic low back pain (LBP) due to degenerative disc disease (DDD).
This study designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Intralink device in participants with chronic or recurrent non-radicular discogenic LBP due to DDD.
462 studies on the registry are indexed under Intervertebral Disc Degeneration; 100 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 40 is below the median of 60 across 256 interventional studies indexed under Intervertebral Disc Degeneration.
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Exclusion Criteria:
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Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.
What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
BMI (body mass index)
Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.
What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Investigational drug or device
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Childbearing potential
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Intralink Device
Device: Pain treatment
Device: Intralink
Also known as: Intralink
Oswestry Disability Index (ODI)
Change from baseline in mean disability scores using Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) ODI is a self-reported questionnaire widely used to track changes in a patient's condition over time and evaluate the effectiveness of treatments for low back pain. The ODI consists of 10 sections, each addressing a specific aspect of daily functioning. A higher score indicates greater disability. The final score/index ranges from 0-100 scale. A score of 0-20 reflects minimal disability, 21-40 moderate disability, 41-60 severe disability, 61-80 crippled, and 81-100 bed bound.
Time frame: 1 Month compared to Baseline
Assess occurrence of serious adverse events post-treatment.
Frequency of serious adverse events post implant
Time frame: Through 1 Month post procedure
Evaluate type of adverse events
Incidence and type of adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs)
Time frame: Baseline through 6 months post procedure
Assess change from baseline in mean disability scores using Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) post-procedure
Change from baseline in mean disability scores using Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) ODI is a self-reported questionnaire widely used to track changes in a patient's condition over time and evaluate the effectiveness of treatments for low back pain. The ODI consists of 10 sections, each addressing a specific aspect of daily functioning. A higher score indicates greater disability. The final score/index ranges from 0-100 scale. A score of 0-20 reflects minimal disability, 21-40 moderate disability, 41-60 severe disability, 61-80 crippled, and 81-100 bed bound.
Time frame: 3, 6, 12, and 24 months post procedure
Assess change from baseline in mean pain scores using Visual Analog Scale (VAS)
Change from baseline in mean pain scores using Visual Analog Scale (VAS) The VAS is a pain screening tool, commonly used to assess pain severity at that moment in time using a 0-100 mm scale, with zero meaning "no pain" and 100 meaning "the worst pain imaginable".
Time frame: 1, 3, 5, 12, and 24 months post procedure
Evaluate change of baseline spinal instability using flexion-extension radiographic imaging
Proportion of participants with a 50% or greater reduction from baseline value in spinal instability (when baseline value is greater than or equal to 1.0), as measured by vertebral angular motion and sagittal plane translations on flexion-extension radiographs
Time frame: Baseline, 1, 3, 5, 12, and 24 months
Assess use of escalated interventions post-procedure
Any of the following count as escalated interventions: increase pain medication use and additional interventions - i.e. injections and surgical interventions at the treatment level.
Time frame: From Baseline to 1, 3, 6, 12, and 24 months
Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC)
The Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC) PGIC is a standardized tool designed to assess a patient's self-reported perception of improvement or worsening in their health status over time. The PGIC consists of 1 question, using a 1 to 7 scale: 1-Very Much Improved to 7-Very much Worse.
Time frame: 1, 3, 6, 12, and 24 months post-implant
Patient Satisfaction
Patient Satisfaction Survey is designed to assess a patient's self-reported satisfaction or dissatisfaction on a 5 point scale. 1- Very Satisfied to 5-Very Dissatisfied
Time frame: 1, 3, 6, 12, and 24 months post-implant
Plan to share: No
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