Impact of a Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Program Associated With the Doado Application in Lowback Pain Management

Launched by ELSAN · Jul 2, 2025

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is looking at how well two different rehabilitation programs help people with recent low back pain that might become long-lasting. One program involves a team of health professionals like physiotherapists, doctors, and psychologists working together over two weeks. The other is a more traditional physiotherapy program, with muscle-strengthening and stretching exercises done 2 to 3 times a week for about a month. The main goal is to see which program better improves how well patients can function after three months, but the study will also check pain levels, muscle strength, flexibility, fear or avoidance of movement, return to work and activities, and medication use over a year.

To take part, patients need to be between 20 and 55 years old, have had low back pain for less than three months, and have a physiotherapy prescription. They must have a smartphone that works with the Doado app used in the study and be able to commit to either program. People with certain conditions, like recent back surgery, nerve problems, or ongoing chronic pain, won’t be eligible. Participants will be checked before starting and then followed up at several times over the next year to see how they’re doing. This study isn’t recruiting yet but aims to help find the best way to treat people at risk of developing long-term back pain.

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• Patient:
• • 1. Suffering from acute common low back pain for less than 3 months at the time of the initial consultation
• • 2. With a prescription for physiotherapy
• • 3. Available for both programs
• • 4. Aged between 20 and 55
• • 5. Equipped with a smartphone compatible with the Doado application
• • 6. Having been informed and having signed the free and informed consent form prior to any specific study procedure
• • 7. Affiliated to a health insurance scheme
• Exclusion Criteria:
• Patient:
• • 1. suffering from a first episode of acute common low back pain for less than one month at the time of the initial consultation
• 2. With a history of spinal surgery:
• • 1. For lumbar arthrodesis in the 12 months prior to inclusion
• • 2. For lumbar arthroplasty in the 6 months prior to inclusion
• • 3. For lumbar recalibration or lumbar disc herniation within 3 months of inclusion.
• • 3. With suspected specific low-back pain
• • 4. Suffering from radiculalgia of the lower limbs
• • 5. Suffering from sensory-motor disorders of the lower limbs
• • 6. Suffering from continuous low-back pain for at least 3 months
• • 7. Have severely impaired physical and/or psychological health, which in the investigator's opinion may affect the participant's compliance with the study.
• • 8. Participating in other interventional research
• • 9. In a period of exclusion from other research still in progress at the time of inclusion.
• • 10. Protected: adult under guardianship, curatorship or other legal protection, deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision.
• • 11. Pregnant, breast-feeding or parturient.