
Weightbearing in Ankle FraX Trial
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https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/clinical-trials/current-trials-and-studies/wax 26-04-2019 13:12:10
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Thanks to Research Team: William Harvey Hospital RUH Bath 🏥 Charlotte @NHSHarlow R&D at UHCW @QAHospitalNews Trauma & Orthopaedics Research Charity East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust for recruits last week - 534 total! Now entering the final month for Weightbearing in Ankle FraX Trial! Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Research at Leicester's Hospitals Oxford Trauma and Emergency Care Cardiff and Vale University Health Board MTW Research and Innovation HHFT T&O Research @mtw_rph 🎁🏆🏃♀️

Congrats to RUH Bath 🏥 Charlotte MTW Research and Innovation Trauma & Orthopaedics Research Charity @QAHospitalNews HHFT T&O Research Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust for recruits! < 2 weeks to go for Weightbearing in Ankle FraX Trial😱! Eyes on @NHSHarlow for a big-reveal Wednesday 👀💥! Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Research at Leicester's Hospitals Research Team: William Harvey Hospital R&D at UHCW Cardiff and Vale University Health Board @mtw_rph

10-day-to-go leaderboard is out! Still wiggle room in the top 10. Will RUH Bath 🏥 Charlotte pip Trauma & Orthopaedics Research Charity for #2 spot. Can HHFT T&O Research stay in top 5? @QAHospitalNews are known 4 quadruple Wednesday Randomisations! @NHSHarlow East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Research Team: William Harvey Hospital SASH NHS Trust Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Cardiff and Vale University Health Board


Come on Team, let’s make sure we keep our spot in the top 5! Daniel Marsland @Agnes_Lagare Angie Dempster

ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT 😱! Great effort from RUH Bath 🏥 Charlotte East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust @QAHospitalNews @NHSHarlow Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust SASH NHS Trust University Hospital Southampton 💙 Trauma & Orthopaedics Research Charity HHFT T&O Research Research Team: William Harvey Hospital Cardiff and Vale University Health Board R&D at UHCW King’s Orthopaedic - 554 Recruits! Can we reach 560??

Exciting news! 👇 Bone and Joint Health website is going live tomorrow at 12pm! We cannot wait to show you what we have been working on. Don't forget to check back here tomorrow to view the full version of the website! Let the final countdown begin! #bartsorthopaedics


OOhhww it's hotting up🔥! Weightbearing in Ankle FraX Trial Randomisations from HHFT T&O Research AND @QAHospitalNews today - fiercely fighting it out for the number 5 spot! @Agnes_Lagare doing the heavy lifting Hampshire Hospitals 💪👏!


Last day of Weightbearing in Ankle FraX Trial recruitment! Get 'em in before midnight! RUH Bath 🏥 East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust @QAHospitalNews @NHSHarlow Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust SASH NHS Trust University Hospital Southampton 💙 Trauma & Orthopaedics Research Charity HHFT T&O Research Research Team: William Harvey Hospital Cardiff and Vale University Health Board R&D at UHCW King’s Orthopaedic

👏Thanks HHFT T&O Research. A fantastic department! Has been great to see the team grow over the last 18months!

That's a 🫔for Weightbearing in Ankle FraX Trial recruits! Huge boost for BOA NHS National Institute for Health and Care Research - Amazing research infrastructure: From 🏃♀️champions like Charlotte RUH Bath 🏥, 💪 BOTA aPI's East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, to awesome🔥 teams @NHSHarlow, HHFT T&O Research, Trauma & Orthopaedics Research Charity & @QAHospitalNews. Thank you!




Great to be working with the trial teams! 😊 Well done Belfast Trust Southern Trust 🌟🌟👏

Boom - kept our Top 5 spot! And the final recruit! Great work and a massive thank you to our amazing team! Trauma & Orthopaedics HHFT Daniel Marsland Angie Dempster @Agnes_Lagare


What a day at the Weightbearing in Ankle FraX Trial workshop! Designing the 🦴🦶 Rehab of the future! Huge thanks to our 10 Patient-participants and 2 Patient representatives for facilitating + AOUK&I Education for funding! Now to turn our patient wish-list into a reality with help from Xavier Griffin Prof. Harbinder Sandhu


It’s International Clinical Trials Day 2022. We are delighted to be collaborating with so many institutions undertaking a wide range of Trauma & Orthopaedic clinical trials, helping to better inform clinical practice. Weightbearing in Ankle FraX Trial SCIENCE Study National Institute for Health and Care Research #ICTD2022 #Iamresearch


UK Trauma Physios📢! 🦴🧑⚕️ Do you treat patients with ankle fractures post-op? Can u help build consensus & design a new rehab service to complement the Weightbearing in Ankle FraX Trial results? The survey takes around 15mins: redcap.link/WAX Still 50 vouchers 🎁 up for grabs if u can help!

Jan Szatkowski Ryan K Harrison, MD Peter G Mangone 🧢 Very General Orthopaedist Can WB straight away, although most wait 2 weeks until stitches removed. Weightbearing in Ankle FraX Trial is about to report, although current evidence supports early WB. To delay 6 weeks is for the surgeons benefit not the patients