Evaluating the Efficacy of a Mobile Application in Postoperative Rehabilitation
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Conditions studied: Spine Degeneration, Hip Arthritis, Knee Osteoarthritis, Hip Fractures
In brief
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a mobile application in improving postoperative rehabilitation outcomes among patients undergoing orthopedic surgery.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT06407427
- Run by
- Yale University
- People needed
- 100
- Starts
- 2025-07-21
- Expected to finish
- 2026-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-08-05
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- 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]
You may not qualify if…
- 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
- Yale New Haven Hospital Saint Raphael's Campus — New Haven, Connecticut, United States (enrolling)
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