Does Weightbearing Crutch Technology Impact Patient Compliance?

Description

The goal of this study is to determine if weight-bearing crutch technology that delivers active feedback to patients during their treatment will impact patient compliance with physician instructions.

Conditions

Fracture Healing

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Study Details

Study overview

The goal of this study is to determine if weight-bearing crutch technology that delivers active feedback to patients during their treatment will impact patient compliance with physician instructions.

A Randomized, Parallel, Two Arm, Unblinded Single-center Study of the Effects of Patient-provided Feedback on Fracture Healing and Weight-bearing Status in Orthopedic Patients Undergoing Operative Fixation or Non-operative Treatment of Isolated Tibial Plateau, Pilon, and Other Ankle Fractures

Does Weightbearing Crutch Technology Impact Patient Compliance?

Condition
Fracture Healing
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

New York

NYU Langone Health, New York, New York, United States, 10016

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Willing and able to participate in study and complete consent
  • * Will undergo treatment of an isolated tibial plateau, pilon, or ankle fracture and placed in a non-weightbearing status with the use of crutches at NYU.
  • * Have access and use of a mobile phone (exclusively iOS and/or Android devices)
  • * Patients with concomitant TBI
  • * Polytrauma patients
  • * Pathologic fractures
  • * Prisoners

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

NYU Langone Health,

Joseph Robin, md, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, NYU Langone Health

Study Record Dates

2024-11-01