Shifting Rehabilitation Paradigms in Skilled Nursing Facilities
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Physical Deconditioning
In brief
This study seeks to improve rehabilitation methods for restoring physical function with skilled nursing facility care. More specifically, this study is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intensive therapeutic rehabilitation program for older adult skilled nursing home residents compared to usual care.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02927171
- Run by
- VA Office of Research and Development
- People needed
- 104
- Starts
- 2016-02-28
- Expected to finish
- 2019-01-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-04-03
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Adults > 18 years of age who are admitted to a skilled nursing facility following hospitalization
- Qualify to receive at least physical therapy services
You may not qualify if…
- Patients with primary diagnoses related to neurological disorders will be excluded as patient needs require more of a motor control approach rather than the proposed high-intensity approach. Such patient populations include:
- Parkinson's Disease
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Recent Cerebral Vascular Accident
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Patients on hospice care will be excluded as the approach is based on palliative principles.
- Other patients to be excluded will include those with conditions where strength training is contraindicated (as indicated by the American College of
- Sports Medicine Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription):
- Recent unstable fracture
- Advanced congestive heart failure
- Bone metastasis sites
- Tumors in strengthening target areas
- Acute Illness
- Recent myocardial infarction (within 3-6 weeks)
- Weight bearing restrictions on graft or fracture sites
- Exposed tendon or muscle
- Absence of pedal pulses
- Presence of fistula
- Platelet levels <50,000/ L
Where it is running
- Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, CO — Aurora, Colorado, United States
- VA Community Living Center — Aurora, Colorado, United States
- Brookdale Senior Living — Denver, Colorado, United States
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