Short back pain program shows promise in reducing activity limits
NCT ID NCT05261828
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested a short program of education and rehabilitation for people with subacute or chronic low back pain who are not severely disabled. The goal was to see if the program reduces activity limitations and changes risk factors. 100 participants took part in the program and received personalized follow-up.
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Study facts
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- 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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100 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Feb 2023
- Finished
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Nov 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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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: * Patients with subacute or chronic nonspecific low back pain (current episode duration ≥ 6 weeks), resistant to outpatient management, and including patients with radiculopathy as long as low back pain is predominant over pain in the lower extremity. * Patients with less than 30 days off work (declarative) for low back pain in the previous year and involved in a professional activity at the time of inclusion. * Patients manifesting fears and false beliefs and/or dramatization: to be included, the patient will have to answer yes to one of the following two questions: * Are you afraid to move? * Are you afraid you will never get out of it? * Patients eligible for a rehabilitation exercise program * informed and written consent to participate Exclusion Criteria * Age \< 18 years, * Insufficient French language proficiency. * Patients having followed a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program for their low back pain in the 3 months preceding inclusion. * Patients who have had lumbar spine surgery within the last 12 months. * Pregnancy in progress. * No affiliation with a health insurance program.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Cochin Hospital
Paris, 75014, France
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