NCT06718348

Assessing the Japet.W+ Lumbar Traction Device in Rehabilitation for Patients With Non-specific Mechanical Low Back Pain

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Grand Hôpital de Charleroi · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study will include patients suffering from nonspecific mechanical low back pain for more than 6 weeks. Two groups will be compared. A Control group and an Experimental group with the exoskeleton JAPET.W

Detailed description

The study will include patients suffering from nonspecific mechanical low back pain for more than 6 weeks. The study will consist of two groups: a control group (Group CTRL) and an experimental group (Group EXP). Participants will be categorized into two categories: "workers," patients on temporary work leave due to low back pain, and "non-workers," patients unable to work due to this condition after exhausting all available therapeutic solutions. Monitoring period (30 physiotherapy sessions): evaluations will be conducted at sessions 1, 15 and 30, on the two groups. Evaluation session 3 months after the end of the physiotherapy sessions.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain, Mechanical

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Use of the Exoskeleton JAPET.W	Phsysiotherapy sessions with the support of the Exoskeleton JAPET.W

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-12-20
• Primary completion: 2026-12-31
• Completion: 2026-12-31
• First posted: 2024-12-05
• Last updated: 2026-04-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium