An interventional study of treadmill training with cues in Parkinson Disease, sponsored by Ospedale Generale Di Zona Moriggia-Pelascini. Status unknown at 1 site in Italy. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-04-05.
Sponsored by Ospedale Generale Di Zona Moriggia-Pelascini · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The first aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of a gait training using treadmill with visual and auditory cues in patients in stages IV Hoehn \& Yahr (H\&Y). The second aim was to compare the obtained data of these patients in advanced stages with those in mild to moderate stages.
Gait is altered in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. It has been shown that treadmill training with visual and auditory cues is useful in improving the gait's parameters in patients in early-moderate stages of disease. No data are available about the effectiveness of this training in those subjects in advanced stages of PD. The first aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of a gait training using treadmill with visual and auditory cues in patients in stages IV Hoehn \& Yahr (H\&Y). The second aim was to compare the obtained data of these patients in advanced stages with those in mild to moderate stages.
150 patients with PD in early-moderate and advanced stages of disease (50 in H\&Y stage 2, group 1, 50 in H\&Y stage 3, group 2 and 50 in H\&Y stage 4, group 3) were enrolled. All patients underwent an intensive treatment: 20-minutes treadmill training per day, 6 times a week, for 4 weeks. Treadmill speed was previously set at 2.0 km/h and progressively increased until a maximum of 3.5 km/h, taking always into account the patients' physical abilities. All patients were evaluated at the enrolment and at the end of the 4-weeks treatment. The first evaluation consisted in one-minute walking on treadmill without the use of cues at 1.5 km/h speed, for all patients. The outcome measurements were: the average length of the right step, the average length of the left step, the coefficient of variance of both steps, and the gait cycle.
4,487 studies on the registry are indexed under Parkinson Disease; 1,082 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 150 is above the median of 40 across 3,294 interventional studies indexed under Parkinson Disease.
Browse Parkinson Disease studies →Ospedale Generale Di Zona Moriggia-Pelascini is the lead sponsor of 36 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.
Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.
Parkinson Disease
Exclusion Criteria:
comorbidity with other neurological condition
20-minutes treadmill training per day, 6 times a week, for 4 weeks
Procedure: treadmill training with cues
20-minutes treadmill training per day, 6 times a week, for 4 weeks. Treadmill speed was previously set at 2.0 km/h and progressively increased until a maximum of 3.5 km/h, taking always into account the patients' physical abilities. All patients were evaluated at the enrolment and at the end of the 4-weeks treatment. The first evaluation consisted in one-minute walking on treadmill without the use of cues at 1.5 km/h speed, for all patients. The outcome measurements were: the average length of the right step, the average length of the left step, the coefficient of variance of both steps, and the gait cycle.
Length of step
Time frame: 4 weeks
Plan to share: No
No publications or documents are linked to this record.
This study is status unknown, as verified in Apr 2017. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
Get an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.
Sign in to followQuestions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.
Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.
Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.
Ospedale Generale Di Zona Moriggia-Pelascini