Skill training preferences and technology use in persons with neck and low back pain

Abstract

Persons with NP or LBP prefer to train on exercises supporting the improvement of everyday life skills. They use technologies in their professional and personal life, which may lower the threshold for the adoption of rehabilitation technologies. Implications for rehabilitation Persons with neck pain (NP) and persons with low back pain (LBP) prefer to train on specific activities that limit their functional ability during daily tasks. The underlying motives linked to preferred training activities are predominantly "being able to work" and "being able to perform free time occupations". Persons with NP and persons with LBP are accustomed to the use of mainstream technologies and the integration of these technologies in rehabilitation settings seems feasible. In order to enable technology supported rehabilitation that is client-centred, technologies need to offer an extensive number of exercises that support (components of) patient training preferences.

Attributes Underlying Non-surgical Treatment Choice for People With Low Back Pain: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review

“…Details of the process selection can be found in the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) flow diagram in Figure. Table 1 lists the 13 selected studies. [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53] A majority of these studies (n = 7) were published during the past 5 years and mainly originated from Europe (n = 7) and the United States (n = 3). This shows that the topic of health preferences is increasingly gaining importance in the Western world.…”

“…Six studies only concerned the patients' preferences of attributes and not their treatment preferences. [44][45][46][51][52][53] Consequently, only six studies investigated a specific preference for one of the treatments. [41][42][43][47][48]50 Surgical treatment and acupuncture seemed to be less frequently preferred than other alternatives, such as physical exercise and medication.…”

Smartphone applications are used for self-management, telerehabilitation, evaluation and data collection in low back pain healthcare: a scoping review

“…The most-studied use of the smartphone app in LBP patients was for self-management. We identified 29 articles focused on self-management of LBP via a smartphone app: four systematic reviews, 10,33,46,47 five RCTs, 11,38,41,48,49 five study protocols, 18,45,[50][51][52] six qualitative studies, 35,39,[53][54][55][56] three retrospective cohort studies, 26,42,43 five pilot RCTs, 36,44,57,58 and one case series. 37 Many of the studies coupled the self-management and telerehabilitation in the same app or in the same study intervention.…”

“…34 Use of smartphone apps for telerehabilitation A total of 12 studies presented smartphone apps as a tool for providing rehabilitation interventions at a distance (telerehabilitation). 17,32,[35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44] Despite different designs and aims, most of the studies evaluated the efficacy of the smartphone app use in telerehabilitation. Dario et al, performed a systematic review with meta-analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention based on any form of telerehabilitation, phone calls, emailing, and web-based chats but also smartphone apps.…”

“…36 The protocol of this study is detailed in a separate article. 45 Other studies focused on qualitative analysis of the patient's preferences and compliance in the smartphone app use 35,39 and case series analysis of feasibility, efficacy and patient satisfaction with the telerehabilitation booster session. 37 Selter et al, in their pilot study, assessed the validity of an image-based quantification of pain-related disability as well as patient compliance and patient-perceived utility of the smartphone app (Limbr).…”