App-based coaching aims to ease chronic back pain without pills
NCT ID NCT06498271
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether a smartphone app that provides personalized exercises, pain management audio, and coaching can reduce activity limitations in adults with chronic low back pain. 330 participants will either use the app or continue usual care. The main goal is to see if the app helps people function better in daily life.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- smartphone application with personalized exercises, audio recordings, and coaching
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could offer a convenient, low-cost way to help people with chronic back pain move better and feel less limited in daily activities.
- What could go wrong
- This is a relatively small trial testing a digital tool, not a new drug. The effect may be modest, and results may not apply to everyone with back pain.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 330 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Sep 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Mar 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Adults aged 18 or over * Having non-specific chronic LBP * Participating in the "ComPaRe" e-cohort * Having provided consent for their data to be used to assess trial eligibility * And to be randomized if eligible * And to, allow their data to be used to evaluate intervention effectiveness without being notified that they are in the control group, if randomized to usual the control group * Having a valid email address * Able to read and write French Having a smartphone functioning with Android acquired after 2020 Exclusion Criteria: * No exclusion criteria
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How to take part
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The places running it
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A doctor treating you
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Service de Rééducation et de Réadaptation de l'Appareil Locomoteur et des Pathologies du Rachis - hôpital Cochin
Paris, 75014, France
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