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Studying Aging, Mobility and Chronic Low Back Pain in Older Adults Using Remote Monitoring
In Brief
An observational study evaluating No intervention will be given to the participants for Low Back Pain and Chronic Pain. Completed, enrolled 30 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is very common in older adults and is one of the most common reasons for disability and poor quality of life. Lack of physical activity is considered to negatively impact CLBP and show an inverse association with pain symptoms and limitations. Remote and real-time monitoring can allow ecological momentary assessment which involves repeated sampling of participants' current behaviors and experiences in their natural environments. Recent advances allow monitoring of activity using inertial measurement units (consisting of accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers) that can be worn by an individual at home or during work. In our study, we plan to test the feasibility and acceptability of the wearable devices in elderly patients with CLBP and to explore the use of data analytics and machine learning on the recorded data, in order to demonstrate the feasibility of a larger cohort study.
Study Details
Timeline
Arms & Interventions
Participants without CLBP. Measurements include: bio-physiological, neurophysiological measurements at baseline. Remote monitoring of gait, physical activity for 7 days using inertial measurement unit (IMU) with wearable devices.
Participants with CLBP. Measurements include: bio-physiological, neurophysiological measurements at baseline. Remote monitoring of gait, physical activity for 7 days using inertial measurement unit (IMU) with wearable devices. Self-reported measures of pain and type of activity for 7 days using electronic dairy.
Interventions
This is an observational feasibility study with no intervention.