TREK and TRAK Collaboration

This current site is for use by physiotherapists participating in the TRAK feasibility trial or managing Anterior Cruciate Ligament reconstructed patients at these sites. Please do not share with colleagues outside of this trial at this point in time. We will share the site widely once we have learned from this study and you are all happy with it.

TREK stands for translating research evidence and knowledge. It is a not-for-profit initiative aimed at improving the translation of research evidence and knowledge to health practitioners and patients.

You can learn more about TREK here.

TRAK - Taxonomy for the Rehabilitation of Knee Condition

TRAK ACL is a digital tool for patients to support the self-care components of anterior cruciate ligament rehabilitation. The content for TRAK ACL was developed by Emma Dunphy, NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellow at University College London. The TRAK ACL website has been developed following a programme of research by a team of clinicians, computer scientists and researchers from Cardiff & Vale University Health Board and Cardiff University.

The primary functions of TRAK ACL are:

  • Information provision via animations, infographs, expert videos and text.
  • Personalised exercise programmes to improve technique and capability of exercise compliance.
  • An exercise library organised by categories and phases of rehabilitation.
  • Progress logs to record improvements and challenges throughout rehabilitation.
  • Personalised Goal setting to improve motivation and to reward effort.
  • Prompt emails on a weekly basis to remind you of the key components of rehabilitation.

 

Collaboration for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rehabilitation

The TRAK platform was designed to support patients. The TREK platform was designed to improve knowledge translation to clinicians.  This collaboration has yielded a unique edit of the TREK education platform that is tailored to the management of ACL patients.

We invite clinicians to explore the websites information content to refresh and improve their knowledge of the evidence base. To engage the user, the content includes:

  • podcasts
  • videos
  • animations
  • audiofiles
  • infographs