The current situation, linked to the pandemic of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 generates health concerns, but is also accompanied by many other psychological, social, economic, professional, etc. consequences as well as numerous changes in behavior and lifestyles, notably due to confinement. While the prevention of chronic low back pain and its management are primarily based on the practice of regular physical and sports activity, other psychological factors (stress, anxiety, depression), socioeconomic (low level of education, resources), professionals (physical workload, job dissatisfaction), etc. also have a major role in the onset and the persitence of low back pain. Thus, it is to be supposed that the current context, and more particularly the confinement to which the population has been constrained for almost 2 months, have and will have notable consequences on the evolution of lumbar symptoms in chronic low back pain patients. However, the entanglement of different factors related to containment will potentially have different consequences depending on the individual. It therefore seems difficult to predict how the lumbar symptoms will develop in this population. Indeed, if it can imagined that the decrease in regular physical activity and the increase in anxiety in this context of insecurity could lead to an increase in pain, it could just as well consider that the decrease in stress work, strenuous physical work or travel time from work to home can, on the contrary, have a favorable effect. The objective of this study is to assess the confinement effect on low back pain intensity in chronic low back pain patients. This is an observational, descriptive, transversal and pluricentric study conducted by a single questionnaire.
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Inclusion Criteria: * Major patients (men and women) with common chronic low back pain (i.e. without identified underlying cause) * Patients who benefited from a consultation with a specialist doctor (rheumatologist or algologist) from the recruitment centers for common chronic low back pain between January 1, 2020 and March 17, 2020 (begining of the French confinement) included * Patients who received information with non-opposition Exclusion Criteria: * Pain other than spinal pain not allowing to discriminate low back pain (fibromyalgia, chronic pain syndrome, etc.) * Low back pain of secondary origin (infectious, tumor, fracture, inflammatory, etc.) * Comorbidities limiting the practice of physical and sporting activities (severe heart or respiratory failure, arteriopathy of the lower limbs with lameness, etc.) * Poor understanding of the French language * Pregnant, lactating or parturient women * Vulnerable adults within the meaning of the law * Person deprived of their liberty by judicial or administrative decision * Person under psychiatric care under duress * Person admitted to a health or social establishment for purposes other than that of research * Person subject to a legal protection measure * Person out of state to express consent * Person opposed to participating in the research