Table 3.
Summary description of how the applications (apps) work.
| App Name | How the Apps Work |
|---|---|
| Back pain relief exercises | The user chooses their pain area and receives a list of suggested exercises. There is a chat to contact health care advisers. It contains premium exercises unlocked by monthly payment. The app allows the user to set reminders. |
| Lower back yoga–floor class | The application (app) offers examples of exercises and yoga poses to be performed, as well as tips for back care. Free access to sample exercises. The full content is available under subscription for three months. It allows the user to set reminders. |
| Regimen- back pain relief | The app offers examples of guided exercises depending on the objective selected by the user. It allows the user to set reminders. |
| 6 Minute Back Pain Relief | The app offers nine guided exercises related to yoga poses. It allows the user to set reminders. |
| Yoga Poses for Lower Back Pain Relief | The app offers information related to back pain and guided exercises related to yoga poses. It allows the user to set reminders. |
| Lower Back Pain Exercises | The app offers guided exercises. It allows the user to configure the difficulty of the exercises and set reminders. |
| Escuela de Espalda | The app includes extensive information related to anatomy, biomechanics, exercise, postural hygiene, lifestyles, diagnostic tests, and pain management strategies. It provides evaluation tests and questionnaires to be completed by the user that allows follow-up, as well as guided exercises. User can select favourite exercises. The app includes a section with utilities for the healthcare professional. |
| WomenBackWorkout | The app offers guided exercises. It allows the user to configure the difficulty of the exercises and set reminders. |
| Healthy Spine & Straight Posture–Back exercises/Columna vertebral sana & Postura recta | The app contains some exercise programmes to be carried out in a guided way, as well as a battery of explained exercises. The user can self-evaluate. It allows the user to set reminders and configure the training frequency. Requires payment for full access to programmes. |
| Back Doctor (FREE) Health. Stretch. Workout | The app includes exercise programmes for neck and back pain, as well as chronic pain and other conditions. It provides information about lifestyles. |
| Right Motion–Alivia tu dolor solo con ejercicios | The app offers guided exercises. It allows the user to set reminders. |
| Healo | The app includes exercise programmes with exercises described in text and video. Exercise programmes are personalised depending on the results of the diagnosis received by a doctor or through a self-assessment in the app. The app allows guided self-diagnostics that include the location (body chart) and the characteristics of the pain, its onset, or its duration, among others. It asks the user questions trying to find red flags. The app offers you a potential diagnosis and an associated exercise programme in which reminders can be set. It includes a chat with health care advisers. The design and graphs of the app are very attractive. |
| Doado. Your Back Companion | The app includes explanatory videos of exercises and recommended postures in various situations of daily life. It allows the user to evaluate their pain to keep track of it. |
| Bella’s Lower Back Pain Exercises | The app includes an exercise programme divided into progressive phases. The exercises are explained in writing, as well as in audio and video. It requires payment for access to full content. |
| Healure: Physiotherapy Exercise Plans | The app contains some exercise programmes to be carried out in a guided way, as well as assessments related to the pain and symptoms. It allows the user to schedule programme sessions and set reminders. It requires payment for access to full content. |
| Curable: Back Pain, Migraine & Chronic Pain Relief | The app offers a narrative in the form of a written and listened conversation through which it discovers information related to pain. The intervention is focused on the neuroscience of pain and patient education. The design of the app is very attractive. |
| Improve Posture For A Healthy Spine | The app contains some exercise programmes to be carried out in a guided way, as well as a battery of explained exercises. It allows user to set reminders. It requires payment for access to full content. |