High-Intensity Training Telerehabilitation for Persons with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Pilot Clinical Trial
Timo Meus, Annick Timmermans, Sim Klaps, Jonas Verbrugghe, Markus W Hollmann, Masahiro Kohzuki · 2024
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Description
Timo Meus and co-authors published a 2024 pilot trial of hard exercise training delivered by video link for people with lasting low back pain. High-intensity training can improve fitness and cut disability in this group. Keeping the gains after a clinic program ends is the hard part. A home program guided from afar could help patients stick with it.
Fifteen people joined the six-week trial. The first four sessions ran at a research center. The last eight ran at home through an exercise platform, with twelve sessions in all. Fourteen people finished with no harmful events. Fitness, pain-related measures, motivation, and ease of use were checked before, during, and after the program. Motivation stayed high throughout. The authors treat the trial as a feasibility test: the home-based format worked in practice. A larger trial would be needed to prove how well it eases pain and disability.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Timo Meus, Annick Timmermans, Sim Klaps, Jonas Verbrugghe, Markus W Hollmann, Masahiro Kohzuki |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |