Clinical study
Run at Jessa Hospital in Hasselt, Belgium, from June 2024 to June 2025, with adults living with chronic non-specific low back pain.
Study design
- Type
- Prospective, randomised, controlled pilot study
- Site
- Jessa Hospital, Hasselt (Belgium)
- Period
- June 2024 – June 2025
- Intervention
- 15 minutes of LumbaCure® added to the standard rehabilitation programme (back school)
- Control group
- 15 minutes of additional exercise
- Registration
- ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06662032 ↗
How to read these results
Exploratory pilot study, not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal. The primary endpoint (change in ODI at visit 2) did not reach statistical significance: p = 0.101. These descriptive responder comparisons do not establish definitive efficacy.
- Everyday function · visit 2ODI: functional disability. Relative improvement of at least 25%
- LumbaCure®LumbaCure®: 43.5%ControlControl: 10%
- Pain · visit 5Relative improvement of at least 25%
- LumbaCure®LumbaCure®: 77.8%ControlControl: 37.5%
- Pain catastrophising · visit 4PCS: negative thoughts about pain. Improvement of at least 7 points
- LumbaCure®LumbaCure®: 65%ControlControl: 21.1%
V2, V4 and V5 refer to protocol visits 2, 4 and 5. Each threshold defines the improvement required to be counted as a responder.
Source: LumbaCure2302 clinical investigation report, version 1.2, 14/08/2025. Exploratory pilot study; results not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal.
- ODI (disability)
- Pain (NRS)
- PSFS
- Kinesiophobia (TSK-17)
- Catastrophising (PCS)
- Quality of life (EQ-5D-5L and VAS)
- Participant satisfaction
- A feeling of release in the pelvis
- Improved flexibility
- Reduced pain
- Muscle relaxation
- A sense of well-being
