Easy Stretch Toolkit: A Pilot Study
- Conditions
- Facial Injuries
- Interventions
- Device: Easy Stretch Toolkit
- Registration Number
- NCT03423277
- Brief Summary
To research the use of a novel set of intraoral tools called the Easy Stretch Toolkit for the therapeutic management of facial burns and other facial disorders.
- Detailed Description
In this initial pilot study, we plan to recruit 20 adult or pediatric patients who have sustained facial burns or who have sustained a facial injury resulting in scarring, tightness, limited range of motion of facial skin or musculature, or fibrosis to complete the 8 week treatment. Participants will need to be able to attend a weekly telehealth or in person session with the investigators and complete the entire 8 week prescriptive program. Participants will be outpatient. A facial injury can be any disorder that results in scarring, tightness, limited range of motion of facial skin or musculature or fibrosis. Facial burn injury or facial injury is defined as an injury to the midface or lower half of the face and may be unilateral or bilateral. Participants must be in the chronic phase of recovery. Chronic burns are defined as those burns that are not in the acute healing phase, ie., there are no concerns for injury to new or healing skin or wound dehiscence.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 8
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Easy Stretch Toolkit Easy Stretch Toolkit All participants will be using one or more of devices for 60 minutes 2 times per day for the duration of the 8 week trial. Prescriptive instructions for specific intraoral placements will be given based on the participant's deficit areas.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method UTMB Facial Range of Motion Measurement Tool completed at week 8 Facial measurements taken during select facial movements/expressions assessed by software program created at UTMB specifically for this project. The degree of change in facial movements will be assessed with 9 facial postures (face at rest, nose wrinkle, gentle smile, broad smile with lips closed, broad smile with teeth together, voice "eee", voice "ooo", pucker lips and open mouth wide), which will be photographed weekly. Two examples of the facial landmarks to be plotted and measured during each of the above expressions include right pupil to outside of right nare and length of philtrum, with the goal of measuring change over time with use of the Easy Stretch devices. Each of these measurements will produce a length in millimeters. These will be compared over time to determine changes in facial range of motion.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Facial Disability Index completed at week 8 The Facial Disability Index is the name of a quality of life questionnaire which will be used for this study. It consists of 10 questions, with a scale of 0-5 for each question. 5 questions relate to physical function and 5 questions relate to social well being and function. The combined score provides an overall facial disability index score.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University of Texas Medical Branch
🇺🇸Galveston, Texas, United States