Telerehabilitation in Managing Chronic Low Back Pain

The Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation Versus In-Person Rehabilitation in Managing Chronic Low Back Pain: a Pragmatic Randomized Non-Inferiority Trial

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT06844825

Enrollment

Registered

2025-02-25

Start date

2025-03-25

Completion date

2025-12-30

Last updated

2025-02-25

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Conditions

Low Back Pain (LBP)

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.

Interventions

OTHERTele rehabilitation

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

OTHERusual care only

in-person usual care provided by the physical therapist

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

TRIPLE (Subject, Caregiver, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

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.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Pain	baseline and immediately after the intervention	Pain measured by numeric rating scale
function	baseline and immediately after the intervention	measured by the Oswestry function index

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026