NCT05481996

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

Effectiveness of an Exercise-based Telerehabilitation Program for Police Officers and Firefighters With Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain: a Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: Federal University of Pelotas · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Detailed description

Low back pain is the leading cause of year lived with disability worldwide. Workers exposed to physically demanding activities and inappropriate postures, such as those performed by police officers and firefighters, are highly affected by chronic low back pain. Smartphone app-based self-managed interventions have been shown to be an alternative for chronic non-specific low back pain treatment. However, there is still little research on the development and testing of remotely-delivered programs for the management of chronic low back pain, especially in police and fire professionals. 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

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-10
• Primary completion: 2023-06-20
• Completion: 2023-08-20
• First posted: 2022-08-01
• Last updated: 2024-02-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil