Conventional Follow-up Versus Mobile App For Post-Operative ACL Reconstruction Patients

University of Toronto Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Tear

Treatments

Other: conventional in-person

Device: mobile app

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02942940

MobileApp

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: Telemedicine is increasingly used to overcome distance between patients and physicians. Preliminary studies suggest that mobile app follow-up care for ACL reconstruction patients is feasible, can avert in-person follow-up care, and is cost-effective.

Objective: To avert in-person follow-up through the use of a mobile app in the first six weeks after surgery.

Methods: This will be a single-center, prospective randomized controlled trial

Results: Data to be analyzed from 72 patients.

Enrollment

32 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 70 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients undergoing ACL reconstruction at Women's College Hospital (WCH), between the ages of 18-70.
Patients must be able to use a mobile device and communicate in English.

Exclusion criteria

Patients who are smokers, as they carry increased rates of complications.
Patients must not:
- Suffer from chronic pain
- Be taking narcotic (morphine-like) medication for pain on a regular basis, and
- Have an allergy to local anesthetics or morphine-like medications
  - Pain scores captured in the VAS and QoR-9 are important for judging post-operative recovery. Pre-existing pain or inability to take narcotics post-operatively would compromise the reliability of these measures.