Telerehabilitation in Managing Chronic Low Back Pain

NCT ID: NCT06844825

Last Updated: 2025-02-25

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 84 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-03-25
• Study Completion Date: 2025-12-30

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Low Back Pain (LBP)

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: TRIPLE

Study Groups

Tele rehabilitation

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Tele rehabilitation

Intervention Type: OTHER

The experimental group will receive the treatment remotely by ZOOM platform and phone call

Usual care

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

usual care only

Intervention Type: OTHER

in-person usual care provided by the physical therapist

Interventions

Tele rehabilitation

The experimental group will receive the treatment remotely by ZOOM platform and phone call

Intervention Type: OTHER

usual care only

in-person usual care provided by the physical therapist

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion 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.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Shibili Nuhmani

Assistant Porfessor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Other Identifiers

IRB-PGS-2025-03-0019

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id