Sit-to-Stand Progression Using Movi Chair vs Traditional Practices

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Conditions studied: Physical Activity

In brief

Prior to discharging admitted patients, current UAB Hospital policy recommends physical therapy intervention for patients with impaired functional mobility. However, UAB Hospital currently does not have a standardized physical therapy protocol to rehabilitate admitted patients with impaired functional mobility who require moderate assist (defined as physical therapist expending 25-50% effort to assist the patient in standing). In order to reduce the effect of impaired mobility, numerous interventions have been employed at UAB. As a result, there is great variability of treatment procedures performed by various physical therapists to help moderate assist patients return to their level of functioning prior to hospital admission. The purpose of the study is three-fold: 1) to evaluate whether a proposed physical therapy protocol using a commercially available medical device, the Movi chair, contributes to improved mobility for moderate assist patients, 2) to investigate how patient rate of rehabilitation to prior level of functioning is similar/different with the proposed physical therapy protocol using Movi vs the current non-standardized practice for moderate assist patients, and 3) to compare patient confidence in physical therapy with Movi vs the current non-standardized practice using survey for moderate assist patients. In addition, we will track participant's disposition i.e. continued motor and functional change following discharge from the hospital through review of physical therapy records.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03103464

Run by

University of Alabama at Birmingham

People needed

0

Starts

2018-05-01

Expected to finish

2018-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-08-10

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients receiving physical therapy at UAB hospital that require moderate assistance or greater with sit-to-stand transfers during initial evaluation
• Patients with baseline function of supervision as obtained in the initial physical therapy (PT) evaluation
• Patients who have an inpatient hospital stay of at least 4 days

You may not qualify if…

• Patients with diagnoses that are progressive in nature
• Patients in intensive care units due to critical medical condition and confounding factors
• Patients with cognitive impairment as noted in the medical record
• Patients with weight bearing precautions other than free weight bearing (FWB) or weight bearing as tolerated (WBAT)
• Children (under the age of 18), prisoners and pregnant women
• Patients who are not able to speak English

Where it is running

• University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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