Digital Therapeutic Care and Decision Support Interventions for People With Low Back Pain: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of worldwide years lost because of disability, with a tremendous economic burden for health care systems. Digital therapeutic care (DTC) programs provide a scalable, universally accessible, and low-cost approach to the multidisciplinary treatment of LBP. Moreover, novel decision support interventions such as personalized feedback messages, push notifications, and data-driven activity recommendations amplify DTC by guiding the user through the program while aiming to increase overall engagement and sustainable behavior change.

Objective

This systematic review aims to synthesize recent scientific literature on the impact of DTC apps for people with LBP and outline the implementation of add-on decision support interventions, i

SUBMITTER: Lewkowicz D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8663573 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature