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Digital technology as a tool in self-management of painful low back syndrome

The development of electronic media has enabled the health service users an open access to different medical information. The patients are not satisfied only with the medical report and diagnosis made by a professional, they want to know more. Therefore digital technology is used to gain more information about the painful syndromes in the lower back. This process can be called e-low back pain. The pain that occurs in the lower back is called lumbago and it can have several causes. The aim of this paper is to analyze the lumbago patients' active participation in order to achieve new knowledge and to expand the already existing ones using different internet sources. The hypothesis stated in the research: H1: Participants show interest and positive attitude in using information technology in order to assist in the back pain treatment. This research carried out the result analysis of the E-back pain questionnaire about the usage of information technology and the digital communication capabilities in order to achieve new knowledge and to expand the already existing one related to the back pain. 120 participants responded to the research, dominantly middle-aged (average age 49.25 years). In conclusion, participants express their positive opinion about using modern information technologies in acquiring and expanding their knowledge about the back pain.

lumbago, back pain, electronic media, e-back pain, open access, the Interne

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