The Mobility Toolkit: Electronically Augmented Assessment of Functional Recovery Following Lower-Extremity Trauma
Abstract
Background: The proposed effort directly involves the development and validation of standardized measures to objectively assess and improve rehabilitative outcomes, including multi-extremity trauma following neuromusculoskeletal injury. It involves the direct application of the Mobility Toolkit Project, which is a HIPAA-compliant, web-accessible, cloud-based application for data acquisition and quantitative analysis of performance-based measures (PBMs) in multiple wide-spread clinic and therapy settings. The proposed effort addresses the feasibility of data collection in clinical settings and describing the recovery trajectories for lower-extremity injuries in active duty and civilian orthopaedic trauma patients. Objective/Hypothesis: The purpose of this study is to (1) evaluate implementation in multiple clinical centers in the context of a large orthopaedic research consortium; (2) generate normative data for patients with lower extremity articular injures and non-injured controls: and (3) to identify thresholds that indicate risk for diminished long-term function and complications. Specific Aims: The specific aims are to (1) Determine the feasibility and burden of implementing the Mobility Toolkit in a clinical setting, in the context of a large, multi-center research consortium, (2) Establish normative data for adult patients with articular injuries (proximal tibia, pilon, ankle fracture and ankle fracture-dislocation, hind foot) as well as a cohort of non-injured adults, and (3) Identify thresholds that indicate risk for diminished long-term function and select complications (eg, malunion, hardware failure, range of motion complications). In addition, an exploratory aim 4 is to develop algorithms to translated AHRS data for additional physical performance measures selected by the Protocol Committee made up of orthopaedic surgeons, physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians, and physical therapists.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Accession Number
- AD1161299
Entities
People
- Stephen Sims
Organizations
- Atrium Health