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Stanford Spine Keeper - Managing Your Low Back Pain

Mobile health applications (mHealth apps) are transforming medical research and intervention by allowing constant, instantaneous and personalized access to patients. The investigators have designed a mHealth app (Stanford SpineKeeper) utilizing the Apple ResearchKit and HealthKit platform, which is an open source software framework designed Apple Inc to be used by medical researchers to use for research purposes. The investigators will assess whether a multidisciplinary intervention delivered through the application can help improve quality of life and minimize symptoms in patients with chronic low back pain.

Stanford is currently not accepting patients for this trial.

Stanford Investigator(s):

Intervention(s):

  • other: Mobile health applications (mHealth apps) based intervention

Eligibility


Inclusion Criteria:

   1. Self-reported "yes" to the question "Have you ever had low back pain for 6 months?"

   2. Ownership of an iPhone with an updated operating system (iOS 8 or 9) compatible with
   Apple ResearchKit with internet connectivity.

   3. Self-reported aged 18 years and older with medical-decision making capacity.

   4. Literacy in the English language

Exclusion Criteria:

   1. Any serious chronic medical issues (severe cardiac or pulmonary medical problems,
   cancer) that may limit ability to participate in physical therapy and home exercise.

   2. Individuals who are pregnant, incarcerated, decisionally impaired.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years - N/A

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Not currently accepting new patients for this trial

Contact Information

Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
Ma Agnes Ith
650-721-7600
Not Recruiting