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Activ’Back, the smartphone app that takes care of your back

MIL OSI Translation. Government of the Republic of France statements from French to English
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Launched by health Insurance to help people suffering from back pain and those who wish to prevent the appearance of pain, Activ’Back has won the prize of the mobile application health for the general public, awarded on the occasion of the Trophies of the health mobile on February 9, 2018.

Available free for smartphones on iOS or Android, Activ’Back is a coach at your service everyday to prevent back pain, and act as soon as the pain occurs, your home, your place of work or on the move.

Activ’Back offers three major features :

The first allows you to better understand the functioning of your back and understand the origin of low back pain, through information and quiz :tennis is a sport suitable when you have backache ?
ironing sitting down is it recommended ?
what positions should we adopt for the gardening ?

The second function allows you to have a coach in your phone, and discover with him or her relaxation exercises, stretching and strength training to do it at work or at home, but also the good deeds of everyday life (carry a bag, do the housework or the kitchen, stand or sit in the car…) in the form of videos and animations. The exercises are offered individually “a la carte” and in the form of sessions that consist of several exercises that you can sort according to level of difficulty, type of exercise, and the opportunity to do the work.
The third function offers you a tracking of your activity, you incite them to maintain and develop, as well as a follow-up of your pain. Messages to remind you of the workouts that you have scheduled and you deliver the advice according to the days and your use of the application. You can find all of the exercises and the sessions already completed and those to come. Encouragement are regularly sent.

Namely :

Activ’Backpack has been designed in collaboration with experts (general practitioners, masseurs-physiotherapists, rheumatologists, occupational physicians and rehabilitation technicians physical), as well as with users (employees of the Insurance with back problems). The experts have also accompanied the health Insurance in the awareness campaign to back pain ? The right treatment, it is the movement that began in the fall of 2017 and whose main objective was to fight against the idea received involving the relief of back pain at rest (maintenance of physical activity is on the contrary essential).

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