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Filter by:The Ibuprofen - Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) - Safety trial investigates tolerability and feasibility of "small molecule" (Ibuprofen) mediated Rho-inhibition as putative neuroprotective, plasticity-enhancing and neurorestaurative intervention. The primary safety analysis is based on the incidence of severe gastrointestinal bleedings. In addition, the feasibility of recruitment procedure, and oral administration of the compound within the multidisciplinary setting of acute intensive medical care will be explored. Furthermore, the pharmacokinetics of Ibuprofen under the condition of acute motor complete SCI will be investigated. Secondary endpoints will permit preliminary statements about effects on neuropathic pain, spasticity, and neurological function.
This study will allow to assess liver related injuries in HIV patients.
Mayo Clinic has been funded by the National Institute on Disability Independent Living & Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) as a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Model System Center continuously since 1998. We have successfully competed for this funding because we consistently produce high quality research and because we provide comprehensive team-based rehabilitation services to people with TBI and their families over the continuum of care that is associated with superior outcomes. Lack of access to specialized TBI care is the most common need identified by individuals after they are hospitalized for TBI. The upper Midwest has some of the highest populations of rural dwellers, the elderly, and Native Americans, all of whom have a high risk for TBI and are more likely to have limited access to rehabilitation services after acute care. Explosive advances in communication technology have brought tele-medicine to the forefront of health care. The CONNECT trial will test the effectiveness of using modern technologies - such as phone consultation and other telehealth communication systems - to deliver specialized brain rehabilitation resources remotely to patients and providers in the upper Midwest. The groups targeted by the CONNECT trial are: - Individuals recently hospitalized with TBI; - Their families; - Their local health care and other providers (primary care providers, psychologists, therapists, social service providers, job counselors). The CONNECT trial is the first study of this scope - in 4 upper Midwest states (MN, IA, ND, and SD), 3 health systems (Mayo Clinic, Altru Health System in ND, Regional Health in SD), and 2 state Departments of Health (IA, MN) - using electronic technology to see if outcome can be improved by providing care with no face-to-face contact. The trial will study whether outcomes over three years are different in the group receiving this remotely provided model of care compared to a matched group that receives usual care in their communities. The desired long term outcome of this study is to increase our capacity to provide care and to reduce barriers to accessing specialized TBI rehabilitation services faced by individuals with TBI and their families.
Primary objectives are to define incidence and prevalence of Delirium in an elderly population admitted to the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology and, in the postoperative phase, in the high Dependency Unit as well as to determine the presence of risk factors. Secondary objectives are to determine mean hospital stay, rates of complications as well as in-hospital mortality and at 1-3 and 12 months after discharge, functional recovery and cognitive outcomes at 1, 3 and 12 moths follow-up.
The current study will implement and evaluate a multi-component, psychoeducational intervention for caregivers of children with spinal cord injury (SCI) ages 7-12. Two hypotheses will be tested. First, caregivers who participate in the intervention group will demonstrate better outcomes than caregivers in the control group. Second, children with SCI whose caregivers participate in the intervention group will demonstrate better outcomes than children with SCI whose caregivers participate in the control group.
The STREAM Study is a prospective longitudinal observational outcomes study that will examine the reliability, validity and responsiveness of the PROMIS tools for clinical research following orthopaedic trauma.
The overall goal of this study is to establish a new pre-rehabilitation program in the prevention of muscle injury in the legs of healthy people serving in the military and injured individuals with muscle wasting following leg injuries. The specific goals include: 1) the amount of exercise that causes injury to healthy muscle in the lower leg of healthy people; 2) what is the effect of an intervention (pre-rehabilitation program) on decreasing how easily the muscle of the lower leg can be injured in healthy people; 3a) what amount of exercise causes injury to muscle that has recently been injured and is recovering and 3b) the effect of the new pre-rehabilitation program on the muscles of the lower leg when the muscle has recently been injured and is still recovering. For the first goal, the investigators will determine how easily the muscle can get injured from a specific exercise in 6 healthy, conditioned men and women. Participants will perform different amounts of exercise with the lower leg muscles to see how easily the muscle can be damaged. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) will be used to estimate how much damage occurs with the different levels of exercise. For the second goal, the investigators will examine the effect of a new pre-rehabilitation program on decreasing how easily muscle gets damaged from the exercise we did in the first goal. The investigators will invite healthy people to participate in this goal. The investigators will use MRI, blood markers, and pain as ways of assessing muscle damage in 10 people who do the pre-rehabilitation program before exercising and 10 who do not do the new program. The third goal will focus on a) determining how easily muscle gets injured that has recently recovered from some trauma (5 people will participate in this part of the third goal), and b) determining how a pre-rehabilitation program decreases how easily a muscle that has just recovered from trauma gets injured from exercise (10 people will participate in this part of the third goal).
The purpose of this project is to compare three treatment regimens for knee injury to the standard rehabilitation protocol: 1) NMES, 2) graduated strength walking (via a weighted vest), and 3) NMES combined with graduated strength walking. Each treatment arm will be supplemented by the standard of care and compared to a group who receive the standard rehabilitation only. The Study will compare the effects of NMES, Strength Walking and combined NMES/ Strength Walking on strength, mobility, symptomatology, and Quality of Life (QOL) in military members with knee injury to a standard rehabilitation protocol program only. All groups will participate in standard rehabilitation protocol. The groups will be assessed over 18 weeks to compare main and interactive effects over time.
The aim of this study is to assess the prevention of incision healing complications in patients undergoing Total Knee Arthroscopy (TKA) and Total Hip Arthroscopy (THA) treated with either Single-Use Incisional NPWT (Negative Pressure Wound Therapy), or standard of care dressings.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of beloranib in obese subjects with hypothalamic injury.