Effectiveness of an additional web-based app-intervention to traditional physiotherapy in patients with musculoskeletal pai
- Conditions
- musculoskeletal pain
- Registration Number
- DRKS00024160
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Luebeck
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting stopped after recruiting started
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 3
? older than 18 years.
? have an app-enabled smartphone or tablet.
? have musculoskeletal symptoms (lumbar spine and/or cervical spine and/or shoulder and/or hip and/or knee and/or elbow).
? have a referral to outpatient physiotherapy from their doctor.
? have a minimum pain intensity (3/10) OR a minimum of 20% disability (measured with a disease-specific questionnaire (Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), Neck Disability Index (NDI), Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH), Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC))
? cannot operate a mobile phone/tablet
? do not speak/understand and are not able to read German or English
? have a pathology requiring medical intervention (red flags)
? had surgery within the last six weeks (relevant to the current symptoms)
? suffer from neurological, psychiatric or other diseases that make full participation in the study impossible
? medical interventions are not an exclusion criterion but will be documented
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Minutes of exercise/physical activity per week documented in an exercise diary; the primary endpoint is 6 weeks after the beginning of the intervention.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - region specific disability measured using the WOMAC, Oswestry disability index, neck disability index and DASH<br>- fear of movement (Tampa Skale)<br>- depression (PhQ9)<br>- patient satisfaction