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Effects of Right Lower Limb Orthopedic Immobilization on Braking Function

NCT01171287 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 14

Last updated 2015-06-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Research on the implications of orthopedic injury and surgery on automobile driving ability has been limited. Only a handful of orthopedic issues have been studied to date, especially the safe postoperative resumption of driving. However, effects of orthopedic immobilizations of the lower right limb on fitness to drive are largely unknown, and the physician is left with little guidance. Only one study (Tremblay et al. 2009) have looked at the impact of wearing such devices on braking performances. The results have shown a statistically significant increase of braking times while wearing a removable Aircast walker and a walking cast in healthy subjects under simulated driving conditions. Despite this, the study have not demonstrated that driving with orthopedic immobilization is dangerous since the increase in braking times were minimal. Limitations of this study include the important fact that driving simulation is not real-time driving. In order to assess the validity of the driving simulator used in this study, a similar experimental study during real-time driving was thus devised.

Conditions

  • Automobile Driving With an Aircast Walker
  • Automobile Driving With a Walking Cast

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Driving with an Aircast Walker

PROCEDURE

Driving with a walking cast

PROCEDURE

Driving with a running shoe

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • BSN Medical Inc

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Université de Sherbrooke

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Francois Cabana, MD · Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-09-30
Primary Completion
2008-10-31
Completion
2014-04-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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