Telerehabilitation in Managing Chronic Low Back Pain
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Tele rehabilitation, usual care only.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Low Back Pain (LBP). Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
The Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation Versus In-Person Rehabilitation in Managing Chronic Low Back Pain: a Pragmatic Randomized Non-Inferiority Trial
Overview
The purpose of this study is to determine whether telerehabilitation is as effective as in-person rehabilitation in treating patients with chronic back pain in actual clinical practice settings.T he study will recruit eighty-four individuals with chronic LBP, who will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: telerehabilitation (TR) or the control group, who will receive standard clinic therapy. The TR group will be treated remotely via phone calls and the Zoom platform. The intervention program will be customized according to the requirements and abilities of each patient. It will include self-management skills, education and support, including Pain Neuroscience Education , and customized exercises.
Interventions
- Other Tele rehabilitation
The experimental group will receive the treatment remotely by ZOOM platform and phone call - Other usual care only
in-person usual care provided by the physical therapist
Primary outcome measures
- Pain [Time frame: baseline and immediately after the intervention]
- function [Time frame: baseline and immediately after the intervention]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Adults aged 18 and above with non-specific chronic low back pain more than 12 weeks.
Exclusion Criteria: Cancer, systematic or neurological diseases, fracture, recent surgery on the spine and/or extremities, cognitive impairment, pregnant women, and communication barriers or other medical conditions contraindicating TR. If there is any presence of red flags, such as cauda equina syndrome, spinal infection, spinal compression fractures, spinal stress fractures, ankylosing spondylitis, or aneurysm will also be excluded.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Triple blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06844825 · IRB-PGS-2025-03-0019