What is the effect of an six-week outpatient rehabilitation program compared to a wait-list control on functional independence in people with Friedreich ataxia?

Sarah Milne0 个研究点目标入组 19 人开始时间: 2012年6月29日最近更新: 2020年1月13日

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•1. Homozygosity for a GAA expansion in intron 1 of FXN
•2. Aged 15 years and over
•3. Able to give informed consent
•4. Understand written and verbal English
•5. Reduction in functional capacity and/or need for physical rehabilitation intervention
•6. Able and willing to participate and attend a six-week outpatient rehabilitation program at the Kingston Centre
•7. Have a FARS Functional Staging Score 2-5 (Symptoms present, recognized by patient, but still mild – Confined but can navigate a wheelchair and can perform some activities of daily living that do not require standing or walking)

•1. Compound heterozygotes for a GAA expansion in intron 1 and a point mutation/deletion in FXN
•2. Aged under 15 years
•3. Acute orthopaedic injury limiting ability to weight-bear
•4. Pregnancy
•5. Living rurally or interstate with no other means of accommodation
•6. Those unable to access the outpatient program due to transport issues
•7. Need for immediate physiotherapy intervention for safety reasons (i.e. unable to be waitlisted)
•8. Those requiring greater than three days per week of intervention (i.e. need for serial casting, multiple falls at home, pain) as assessed by the Friedreich ataxia Clinic multidisciplinary team
•9. Other illness that has acutely reduced functional capacity
•10. Received botulinum injections or undergone major orthopaedic surgery in last 6 months

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Sarah Milne