Properties of measures of balance in people with cerebellar ataxia

Responsiveness, validity and reliability of measures of balance in people with cerebellar ataxia: 1 year follow up study

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12618000605291

Acronym

Nil

Enrollment

Registered

2018-04-18

Start date

2018-03-01

Completion date

2018-04-30

Last updated

2018-06-11

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This study will estimate the usefulness of four balance assessment tools (BBS, SARAbal, SOT and LOS) in people with cerebellar ataxia. We will follow-up our participants for 12 months to see if the four balance assessment tools reflect the changes in the health status of patients due to the disease.

Interventions

This prospective observational study will assess participants with cerebellar ataxia (any type). All included participants will be followed up for 12 months period.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 65 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

People with Spinocerebellar ataxia (all sub-types) and other types of cerebellar ataxia in the age group of 18-65 years - Presence of one or more of the following symptoms of ataxia: Gait ataxia: identified by an inability or instability to perform tandem walking; Limb ataxia: identified by dysdiadochokinesia (inability to perform rapid alternating hand movement), and dysmetria (inability to perform accurately the finger to nose test and the heel on shin test); Dysarthria: scanning speech; Nystagmus

Exclusion criteria

People with cognitive and severe visual impairments - People who do not have access to the data collection centre

Outcome results