Structured, not supervised
The program presents written exercise and response-recording steps. The current self-guided review does not include individual assessment, messaging or clinical supervision.
About the program
A clearer way to present structured exercise.
The Spinal Restoration Program is being developed by pain medicine clinicians as a self-guided exercise and education product for adults with persistent, nonsurgical lower-back symptoms.
The review draft is deliberately limited. It does not diagnose, provide individual clearance or promise an outcome.
Working principles
Honest about uncertainty
Published research supports exercise as one part of care for persistent low-back pain. This specific program has not been evaluated in a clinical trial.
Designed to sit beside care
The program does not replace a treating clinician. Surgical, adolescent, cervical and thoracic pathways are not available in this draft.
Specific about what exists
The first three weeks are drafted. Later weeks and one exercise demonstration remain undeveloped rather than represented as finished.
Clinical direction
Exercise-based and evidence-aware.
Guidelines recommend structured exercise as one part of care for chronic primary low-back pain, while no single exercise type is established as best. The evidence page explains those limits in full.
Read the evidenceCurrent review
Adult, nonsurgical, lower back.
That is the only pathway represented in the three-week draft. No payment is collected and patient enrolment is not open.
See the pilot scope