Evaluating the Efficacy of a Mobile Application in Postoperative Rehabilitation
Recruiting · NCT06407427 · Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment) · Lead sponsor: Yale University
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App for in-bed conditioning exercisesUsual care
What this trial is about
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a mobile application in improving postoperative rehabilitation outcomes among patients undergoing orthopedic surgery.
Who can take part
Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All (male and female)
Healthy volunteers
No - a diagnosis or condition is required
Phase
Not applicable (e.g. observational or device study)
Study type
Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment)
Inclusion criteria
- Provision of signed and dated informed consent form
- Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study
- English reading/speaking
- Are status post low-energy hip fracture, total knee/hip arthroplasty, or single to multilevel spinal fusion without paralysis
- Must be able bodied enough to participate in a mobile app tool for physical therapy
- Agreement to adhere to Lifestyle Considerations (see section 5.3) throughout study duration\]
Exclusion criteria
- Severe cognitive impairment: Not alert and oriented to person, place, time, and reason for being the hospital; and unable to follow 2 step commands
- Severe physical impairment:
- Neurologic paralysis
- Polytraumas with restrictions incompatible with anti-gravity exercises
- Knee immobilization, bed rest
- Unstable medical conditions:
- On ventilatory support
- Utilizing high degrees of oxygen support (continuous BiPAP, high flow nasal cannula, nonrebreather mask, aerosol mask \>3L/min)
- Hemodynamic instability requiring pressor medication support (can include those on pressors for elevated mean arterial pressure goals (MAPs))
- Neurologically instable with strokes, hemorrhages, increased intracranial pressures
- Open wounds or surgical incisions
- Tenuous closed wounds requiring immobilization or bending restrictions
- Open wounds that are either packed/dressed or dressed with a wound vacuum
- Surgical wounds that are draining fluid or purulence
- Vulnerable populations
- Incarcerated individuals
- Patients without access to a mobile phone with iOS capability
Where it is running
1 location listed across 1 US state.
- Yale New Haven Hospital Saint Raphael's Campus - New Haven, Connecticut, United States