Status:
COMPLETED
Rehabilitation Strategies to Improve Outcomes For Patients With a Lower Extremity Fracture
Lead Sponsor:
Brian W. Noehren
Collaborating Sponsors:
U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command
Conditions:
Femoral Fracture
Tibial Fractures
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-50 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to evaluate speed high intensity interval training (HIIT) walking program following an orthopedic trauma.
Detailed Description
In HIIT an individual gives short bursts of high effort followed by a longer recovery period. Increasingly, HIIT style training programs have been used in other clinical populations (heart conditions...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Ability to read and speak English
- Acute orthopedic injury to the femoral or tibial shaft requiring surgical fixation with an intramedullary rod
- Age 18-50 years of age
Exclusion
- History of chronic pain defined as pain lasting more than 3 months and bothersome at least half the days over the past 6 months that started before the fracture
- Moderate or severe traumatic brain injury
- Initial treatment requiring amputation
- Not employed at the time of the accident at least 20 hours per week.
- Spinal cord injury
- History of schizophrenia, dementia or neurologic disorder with peripheral dysfunction
- Non ambulatory or limited ability to walk without an assistive device prior to the fracture
- Multiple trauma that prevents early weight bearing
- Current Pregnancy
- Unable to participate in or complete in-person follow-up visits or therapy sessions
- In outpatient Physical Therapy at the start of the intervention
- Use of an assistive device to walk for community ambulation at the 10-12 weeks post hospital discharge time point
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 3 2022
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 18 2025
Estimated Enrollment :
66 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT05274022
Start Date
March 3 2022
End Date
December 18 2025
Last Update
January 8 2026
Active Locations (2)
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1
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40506
2
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203