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A Proprioceptive Training Program Using an Uneven Terrain Treadmill for Patients With Ankle Instability

NCT04999904 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 312

Last updated 2025-07-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The ROCKY REHAB trial will provide a pragmatic approach to evaluate if incorporating a rocky, uneven terrain treadmill into the proprioceptive rehabilitation received during physical therapy can improve outcomes and reduce reinjury rates in patients with ankle instability.

Conditions

  • Instability; Ankle (Ligaments) (Old Injury)
  • Sprain of Ankle

Interventions

OTHER

Uneven Treadmill Intervention

Progressive proprioceptive training on the uneven treadmill with up to twelve training sessions. Subjects will be advanced through activities with progression pragmatically assessed by the physical therapists for the benefit and tolerance of the individual subject. Activities may include: slow walking, fast walking, inclined/declined walking, head turning, vision obstruction, dual task walking, fatigued walking, load carriage. Standard of care physical therapy is still provided.

OTHER

Standard of Care Physical Therapy

Standard of Care Physical Therapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • United States Naval Medical Center, San Diego

    collaborator FED

  • Fort Sam Houston

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton

    collaborator FED

  • Naval Health Research Center

    collaborator FED

  • VA Puget Sound Health Care System

    collaborator FED

  • Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pinata Sessoms, PhD · Naval Health Research Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
49 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-11-23
Primary Completion
2025-09-30
Completion
2026-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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