Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 12:31 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 12:31 AM
NCT ID:
NCT07148167
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* For the study group:
* Patients diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, aged 18-50.
* Patients who underwent a cervical MRI between January 2020 and September 2023. Control Group Patients aged 18-50 who underwent cervical MRI between January 2020 and September 2023 due to nonspecific neck pain, who did not have an AS diagnosis and whose cervical MRI was reported as normal.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patients over 50 years of age
* History of spine surgery;
* Presence of pain, numbness, and weakness in the upper extremities
* History of cervical injury or neck injury
* Presence of tuberculosis, tumor, fracture, infection, instability, cervical myelopathy, cervical disc herniation (protrusion, extrusion) (will be considered cervical bulging)
* Presence of cervical radiculopathy
* Those with a detectable pathological spinal condition related to neck pain, including spinal deformity; inflammatory or rheumatic diseases other than AS, malignancies, or neurological diseases
* A cognitive or psychological disorder
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Maximum Age:
50 Years
Study:
NCT07148167
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT07148167