LOw Level of Activity (LOLA): Education and Exercise-based Intervention for Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT04576611
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Chronic pain of moderate to severe intensity occurs in 19% of adult Europeans. Non-specific low-back pain is one of the most prevalent symptoms and the main cause of disability in industrialized countries, generating significant public health expenditure on health and occupational care. The combination of pain neurophysiology education and therapeutic exercise has shown positive effects in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain. Mobile health tools (mHealth) are proposed as a cost-effective alternative to continuously record the daily activities of patients and to provide rapid feedback to users and clinicians, reducing visits to clinics. A 4-week (8-session) education and exercise-based intervention will be carried out in a group of patients with non-specific chronic low back pain using two modalities: (1) face-to-face guided by a health professional or (2) self-managed through BackFit App. The sample will be divided into two groups and will be evaluated before (pre), after (post) and 3 months (follow-up) after the intervention.
Study details
- Official title
- Behavioral Activation and Exercise Protocol for Chronic Pain Patients Based on the Use of New Technologies (Smartphone)
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: face-to-face protocol
- Other: self-managed protocol
- Sponsor
- University of the Balearic Islands
- Collaborators
- Ministerio de EconomÃa y Competitividad, Spain
- Start date
- 2019-03-06
- Primary completion
- 2020-02-11
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 59 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Spain
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Subjects between 18 and 59 years, with non-specific low back pain for more than 6 weeks and which have experienced at least 3 episodes of low back pain lasting more than 1 week during the year prior to the study, and, at the time of evaluation and/or intervention, presenting pain of mild/moderate intensity (not exceeding 5 out of 10 in a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)). Exclusion Criteria: * High functional impairment compromising activities such as walking, sitting or getting up from a chair. * Pain at the time of evaluation and/or intervention greater than 5 (out of 10) in a VAS. * Presence of irradiated pain (sciatic type) or referred to lower extremities. * History of spine surgery, spinal or pelvic fracture * Hospitalization for serious trauma or injuries due to traffic accidents. * History of osteoarthritis in the lower extremities. * History of any systematic diseases with involvement of the locomotor system.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04576611