Effectiveness of Therapeutic Exercise App Adding a Face-to-face Physical Therapist in Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT04975568
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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)
Low Back Pain (LBP) is one of the most usual illness in our society. Therapeutic Exercise (TE) has been shown the most effective and cheaper treatment in patients suffering LBP, but the lack of engagement to the therapeutic exercise programs is related with later acute LBP and chronic situations, despite symptoms slightly improve. The value of personalized therapeutic exercised programs in patients suffering LBP has been shown nowadays, improving symptomatology and quality of life. New technologies help patients to engage more in treatment, while time that health education make people "active patients". The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a Home Therapeutic Exercise Program (HTEP) based in an app with McGill's exercised adding 6 face-to-face sessions every 15 days with a physical therapist .
Study details
- Official title
- Effectiveness of Therapeutic Exercise Controlled Through App Adding Face-to-face Supervision Executed by Physical Therapist in the Subacute and Chronic Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: App and face-to-face physical therapy
- Other: App physical therapy
- Sponsor
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Collaborators
- FUNDACION PARA LA INVESTIGACION HOSPITAL CLINICO SAN CARLOS
- Start date
- 2021-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2022-01-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 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: * ≥ 18 and ≤ 65 years old. * Suffering low back pain. * In a subacute and chronic phase Exclusion Criteria: * Non signature of the informed consent * Red Flags are risk factors detected in low back pain patients' past medical history and symptomatology and are associated with a higher risk of serious disorders causing low back pain compared to patients without these characteristics. * Yellow Flags are psychosocial factors that increase the risk of developing, or perpetuating chronic pain and long-term disability (including) work-loss associated with low back pain. * Pregnancy and lactation * Serious trauma or back surgery before the study * Illness or dysfunction of balance * Visual dysfunction. * Neurological illness, dysfunction or pain. * Inability to stand up and sit without help * Inability to read, understand and complete questionnaires, read and understand a brochure, or understand and follow verbal instructions (e.g. Illiteracy, dementia or blindness) or read, understand and use an app
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04975568