RECRUITING

Evaluating the Efficacy of a Mobile Application in Postoperative Rehabilitation

Description

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a mobile application in improving postoperative rehabilitation outcomes among patients undergoing orthopedic surgery.

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a mobile application in improving postoperative rehabilitation outcomes among patients undergoing orthopedic surgery.

Using a Mobile Application for In-Bed Conditioning Exercises for Orthopedic Postoperative Patients

Evaluating the Efficacy of a Mobile Application in Postoperative Rehabilitation

Condition
Spine Degeneration
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

New Haven

Yale New Haven Hospital Saint Raphael's Campus, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06510

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * 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\]
  • * 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

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Yale University,

Rajiv S Vasudevan, M.D., PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Yale University

Study Record Dates

2026-07