C-Brace Prospective Registry

The Timed Walk test is used to measure gait speed on either a 25-foot or 10-meter straight course timed using the middle 10 feet or 6 meters, respectively. Three trials are performed and the average of the three used. Patients are allowed the use of assistive device (such as a cane, crutches or walker) that they normally use for in home or community ambulation.

Originally designed to test mobility skills in the elderly, the TUG is a validated test for quantifying functional mobility and risk of falling. In the TUG Test, patients are asked to stand up from a chair, walk ten feet, turn and return to the chair, and then sit on the chair. For centers routinely using the TUG as a part of their standard of care, this data (time to complete in seconds) will be collected at baseline and follow-up visits when available. Predictive results from the test are as follows: <10s, Freely mobile; < 20s, Mostly independent; 20-29s, Variable mobility.

Assessment of patient-perceived balance confidence for 16 activities of daily living. For each activity, subjects rate their level of confidence in doing the activity without losing their balance or becoming unsteady on a scale from 0% to 100%, with 100% being the highest level of confidence. The total score for the ABC scale is an average of all activity scores.

The number and percentage of patients who experience one or more adverse events during their participation in the registry will be computed along with the exact 95% binomial confidence interval. The number and percentage of subjects who experience a serious adverse event will also be tabulated along with the exact 95% binomial confidence interval. Events will also be categorized and the number of events and number of patients for each category will be presented. In addition, a complete listing of adverse events along with their relationship to the device, severity, seriousness and outcome will be constructed.

The PSFS is a self-report measure aimed at identifying functional status limitations that are most relevant to individual patients.The PSFS is a reliable, valid, and efficient measure for detecting clinical change in persons with low back pain and knee dysfunction. Patients will be asked to identify three to five activities that they are having difficulty or are unable to perform because of their injury/condition. For the specified activities, patients will then be asked to rate their ability to perform each activity at that time (0-10 numerical scale) with '0' being unable to perform the activity, and '10' being able to perform the activity at the same level as they could prior to the injury/condition. There is no total score for this measure.

On the day the patient is casted for the C-Brace the patient's current orthosis will be affixed with an activity monitor to record the number of steps the patient takes with the orthosis. The patient will be sent home with a prepaid envelope and be instructed to mail back the activity monitor 16 days later, in order to capture 14 whole days of step count data. The step counts will be downloaded from the device the day the activity monitor is returned to the Investigator. The C-Brace will also be affixed with the same activity monitor following the same process for when the activity monitor was attached to the previous orthosis.

The BBS is a 14-item scale designed to measure static and dynamic balance in adults in a clinical setting. The range in score for the BBS is 0 to 56, with higher scores indicating better balance. Points for each item are deducted if the time or distance requirements are not met, the patient's performance requires supervision, or the patient requires assistance from support or examiner. The points reached in each item were summed up to the total score.

The NPRS is a valid and reliable measure of pain that may be used across all musculoskeletal injuries/conditions and complements the Patient Specific Functional Scale (PSFS). The patient will be asked to rate the pain of their joints, foot, lower back, and if they are using an assistive device any additional affected limbs on average over the last 24 hours on a scale 1-10, with '1' being 'very mild' and '10' being the 'unimaginable unspeakable'. There is no total score for the NPRS.

The Manual Muscle Test is using a grading system of 0-5 in muscles of the lower body (hip, knee, ankle), 0 indicating none muscle strength at all, 5 means normal. In addition, assessments for range of motion, contractures, and alignment in the lower limb will all be recorded.There is no total score for these assessments

Measure of health status composed of 5 dimensions: mobility, ability to self-care, ability to undertake usual activities, pain and discomfort, anxiety and depression. Each dimension is rated on a 5-point scale indicating the level of perceived problems for each dimension (level 1 indicating no problems and level 5 indicating extreme problems). Each health state can potentially be assigned a summary index score based on societal preference weights for the health state. These weights, sometimes referred to as 'utilities', are often used to compute QALYs for use in health economic analyses. Health state index scores generally range from less than 0 (where 0 is the value of a health state equivalent to dead; negative values representing values as worse than dead) to 1 (the value of full health), with higher scores indicating higher health utility.

PROMIS item banks and their short forms are a reliable and precise measurements of patient reported outcome measures. For this registry the Pain Interference - Short Form 6a has been chosen for use by the patient. The patient will be asked six questions related to how pain may have interfered with certain activities in the last 7 days, and rate them on a 1-5 scale, with '1' being 'not at all' and '5' being 'very much.' To find the total raw score for the short form, the values of the responses are summed. The raw score is then converted to a T-Score. A higher PROMIS T-score represents more of the concept being measured.