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Exercise-based Telerehabilitation Program for Police Officers and Firefighters With Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain

NCT05481996 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 66

Last updated 2024-02-29

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Summary

The aim of this clinical trial is to develop and test the effectiveness of a smartphone app-based self-management program based on exercise and pain education for police officers and firefighters with chronic low back pain.

Conditions

  • Chronic Low-back Pain
  • Telerehabilitation

Interventions

OTHER

App-Based Pain Education and Exercise

Telerehabilitation is defined as providing techniques for therapeutic rehabilitation remotely or off-site using telecommunication technologies. Thus, our intervention will be based on the use of a smartphone application created especially for the study that will contain a program of progressive physical exercises with images and descriptions, educational messages and an online booklet for the study subjects, totaling 8 weeks of training and pain education.

OTHER

Online booklet

An online booklet containing information about chronic low back pain and weekly messages about low back pain causes, suggestions for lifestyle modifications and behavior will be delivered, as well as an incentive to perform physical exercises.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Federal University of Pelotas

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Cristine Alberton, PhD · Federal University of Pelotas

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-10-10
Primary Completion
2023-06-20
Completion
2023-08-20

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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