Introduction Mobile health, or mHealth, is based on mobile information and communication
technologies and provides solutions for empowering individuals to participate in healthcare …

Importance Lower back pain (LBP) is a prevalent and challenging condition in primary care.
The effectiveness of an individually tailored self-management support tool delivered via a …

Background Mobile technologies are increasingly being used in health care and public
health practice for patient communication, monitoring, and education. Mobile health …

Importance Self-management is a key element in the care of persistent neck and low back
pain. Individually tailored self-management support delivered via a smartphone app in a …

Background International guidelines consistently endorse the promotion of self-
management for people with low back pain (LBP); however, implementation of these …

Background Digital therapeutic care apps provide a new effective and scalable approach for
people with nonspecific low back pain (LBP). Digital therapeutic care apps are also driven …

Background Clinical guidelines for nonspecific low back pain (LBP) recommend self-
management tailored to individual needs and capabilities as a first-line treatment. Mobile …

Background Digital therapeutic care (DTC) programs are unsupervised app-based
treatments that provide video exercises and educational material to patients with nonspecific …

Background Self-management is endorsed in clinical practice guidelines for the care of
musculoskeletal pain. In a randomized clinical trial, we tested the effectiveness of an artificial …

Background Spine disorders are conditions that affect a growing number of individuals, and
mobile health (mHealth) applications (apps) offer potential to assist the self-management of …