Promoting personalised physical activity through a smartphone solution

LIH project supported by the “Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte”

• Department of Precision Health
• Physical Activity, Sport and Health
• Human Motion, Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine and Digital Methods

In February 2023, the Luxembourg charity « Ouvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte » granted a generous donation to the LIH Department of Precision Health (DoPH) within the framework of the project “Personalised physlcal Activity promotioN in arthritis patlentS uSlng a sMartphone-based sOlution” (PIANISSIMO).

The PIANISSIMO project is headed by Drs Laurent Malisoux and Bernd Grimm, leaders of the Physical Activity, Sport and Health (PASH) and Human Motion, Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine and Digital Methods (HOSD) research groups, respectively. The study aims to promote physical activity in people with degenerative or chronic joint diseases by gathering 100 volunteers with osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis to participate. Specifically, the project will develop Colive Move, a dedicated smartphone-based solution for patient education, data collection and promotion of physical activity, and will investigate the relationship between various aspects of daily-life physical activity (i.e., type, intensity, duration, etc.) and pain in real-world settings. The project will ultimately generate a database for future research and patient-specific physical activity recommendations.

The generous donation was granted by the “Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte” under the “Sport and Health” area, which promotes sports and physical activity as a preventive measure for public health.

We are extremely grateful to the Œuvre for their generous support to a project which is perfectly aligned with the digital health and preventive medicine priority axes of our institute, and which also holds a great transversal component

says Frank Glod, Chief Scientific Officer.  

Indeed, the Colive Move application which will be developed in the framework of PIANISSIMO will also benefit future national and international translational research initiatives such as CLINNOVA.