Back health app SelfBack now included as standard in our ergonomics courses

SelfBack has proven to be a valuable addition to Mensura's ergonomics offer since 2025. Fully rooted in science, this app helps employees to actively tackle their back pain. Going forward, the app will become a standard part of our ergonomics training courses: participants will be given three months' access to an individual programme that helps them strengthen their physical resilience and improve their daily habits at work. By doing so, we're directly linking awareness-raising and knowledge transfer to targeted follow-up and tangible behavioural change.

How does it work?

After the training course, all participants are given three months' access to SelfBack, a mobile app that gives them personalised exercises and advice tailored to their needs. The app helps employees build physical resilience and supports them in actively dealing with back pain, whether existing or in the early stages. The initial results are highly promising: on average, participants who use SelfBack after a training course are reporting a pain score that's 37% lower. What these results show is that the combination of training and digital follow-up is not only theoretically sound, but also works in practice.

Gerrit Pollentier, Head of Ergonomics at Mensura: "Adding this app fits within a wider strategy on ergonomics, in which we're working across complementary levels. Training remains the starting point: our courses raise awareness and ensure ergonomics becomes part of normal conversation in the workplace. SelfBack bridges the gap to everyday behaviour and ongoing follow-up. Employers always have the option to switch to an annual licence later on, so they can integrate the app into their ergonomics policy.”