The Mobility Toolkit: Electronically Augmented Assessment of Functional Recovery Following Lower-extremity Trauma

Completed

Conditions studied: Gait

In brief

The study will prospectively enroll and follow 300 participants ages 18-60 surgically treated for a lower-extremity articular injury including fractures of the tibial plateau, pilon, ankle, and calcaneus.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04047030

Run by

Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium

People needed

244

Starts

2019-01-01

Expected to finish

2024-08-31

Last updated by the study team

2025-10-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 18-60 years of age
• Open or closed fractures of the tibial plateau, pilon, ankle or calcaneus requiring surgical fixation.

You may not qualify if…

• Gustilo type IIIB or IIIC injuries
• No other surgically or non-surgically treated injuries that impact gait (e.g. upper extremity injury proximal to the elbow; spinal cord injury; contralateral or ipsilateral fractures).
• Neurologic impairment or deficit that impairs gait
• Prior injuries or conditions that alter gait (e.g. severe osteoarthritis)
• Severe problems with maintaining follow-up (e.g. participants who are prisoners, who are intellectually challenged without adequate family support, or have documented psychiatric disorders).
• Unable to provide informed consent in English or Spanish.

Where it is running

• University of Kentucky — Lexington, Kentucky, United States
• University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Walter Reed National Military Medical Center — Bethesda, Maryland, United States
• Barnes Jewish Hospital — St Louis, Missouri, United States
• Mission Hospital — Asheville, North Carolina, United States
• Carolinas Medical Center — Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
• Womack Army Medical Center at Ft. Bragg — Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston — Houston, Texas, United States
• San Antonio Military Medical Center (SAMMC) — San Antonio, Texas, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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