Selfback

07/10/2021

Thanks to everyone who voted for us in the Innovation Radar Prize competition. We are in the final round and will present selfBACK on Oct 21 💪!

More about the competition: https://dealflow.eu/ir-prize-2021/

24/09/2021

selfBACK is nominated for the Innovation Radar Prize 2021 of the European Commission in the category "Best Innovation in Health Tech". We are among the final eight candidates and need your vote to win. You can vote for us here: https://share.hsforms.com/1YYMId9LzQUuHlktqodgdYA48eua (Deadline: Wed Sept 29, 2021)

05/08/2021

This randomized clinical trial examines a decision support tool that provides lower back pain information and self-management recommendations that are specific to an individual’s characteristics, symptoms, and symptom progression.

03/08/2021

Ryggplager er svært utbredt, og koster samfunnet milliarder. Men den nye appen selfBACK kan hjelpe oss med å bli bedre.

03/08/2021

After more than five years the selfBACK team has built an app that uses artificial intelligence to create self-management plans so users of the app receive recommendations on how to reduce back pain through exercise and lifestyle adjustments as well as explanations on low back pain.

The video below summarizes the core idea of selfBACK and our findings about the effectiveness of selfBACK.

More details can be found in our paper: ja.ma/3A6ACy9

Louise Sandal, Kerstin Bach, Cecilie K Øverås, Malene Jagd Svendsen, Tina Dalager, Jesper Stejnicher Drongstrup Jensen, Atle Kongsvold, Anne Lovise Nordstoga, Ellen Marie Bardal, Ilya Ashikhmin, Karen Wood, Charlotte Diana Nørregaard Rasmussen, Mette Jensen Stochkendahl, Barbara Nicholl, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Jan Hartvigsen, Per Kjær, Gisele Sjøgaard, Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen, Frances Mair, Karen Søgaard, Paul Jarle Mork

23/07/2018

Our overview paper "A Decision Support System to Enhance Self-Management of Low Back Pain: Protocol for the selfBACK Project" has been published by today http://www.researchprotocols.org/2018/7/e167/

ProtocolA Decision Support System to Enhance Self-Management of Low Back Pain: Protocol for the selfBACK ProjectPaul Jarle Mork1, MSc, DPhil‡ ;  Kerstin Bach2, MSc, PhD 1Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway2Department of Comp...

22/07/2018

During the previous two weeks, Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers met in Stockholm (Sweden) for FAIM, the first federal AI meeting. The premier conferences IJCAI, ECAI, ICML, ICCBR and SoCS co-located their annual/biennial meetings. The selfBACK team from NTNU and RGU was well represented with main track talks, invited and regular workshop talks as well as panel discussions at ICCBR and workshop organizations during FAIM. At ICCBR we organized the Deep Learning & CBR workshop and for ICML/IJCAI-ECAI we contributed to the “Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare” and “AI 4 Health” workshop.
Throughout the two weeks we could clearly see that the interest in healthcare applications is very high – especially for personalized healthcare, but also for methods targeting complex domains.

17/04/2018

The Danish Physiotherapy Association hosted a national conference on advances and research in Physiotherapy both internationally and nationally at the Institut for Idræt og Biomekanik, Syddansk Universitet. At the conference Prof. Per Kjær mediated a workshop on rehabilitation using robots, sensors, play with interactive toys and apps. The workshop consisted of 4 short presentations, where senior research Charlotte Nørregaard Rasmussen presented SELFBACK, with a focus on the theoretical basis for the intervention and how the intervention has been developed using an intervention mapping process. Following the presentations, the workshop participants had opportunity to attend a SHOW & TELL session, where they could see and use the SELFBACK app and Mi Fit activity tracking wristbands, and ask questions about the project to Charlotte and Louise Sandal. The workshop participants where positive towards implementing apps, like the SELFBACK app, into their work as supplement to their existing treatment routines. Also, there was a great interest in how patients interact with the app, how the app tailors the self-management content to the individual patient and which role clinicians like physiotherapists can play in this setting. The conference had 1200 participants and about 120 participants attended the workshop.

22/03/2018

'What low back pain is and why we need to pay attention'. Congratulations with this important article in the

Almost everyone will have low back pain at some point in their lives. It can affect anyone at any age, and it is increasing—disability due to back pain has risen by more than 50% since 1990. Low back pain is becoming more prevalent in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) much more rapidl...

27/02/2018

"In the 2016 GBD study, musculoskeletal conditions were the 2nd highest contributor to global disability, and remained the single leading cause of disability since first measured in 1990." Fact sheet on Musculoskeletal conditions by World Health Organization (WHO)

Musculoskeletal conditions comprise more than 150 diagnoses that affect the locomotor system – that is, muscles, bones, joints and associated tissues such as tendons and ligaments, as listed in the International Classification of Diseases. They range from those that arise suddenly and are short-li...