A Training of the Rhythmic Skills With a Serious Game to Improve Gait and Cognitive Abilities in Parkinson's Disease

Rhythm Game Park: a Training of the Rhythmic Skills With a Serious Game to Improve Gait and Cognitive Abilities in Parkinson's Disease

Status

Suspended

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02855710

Acronym

RGP

Enrollment

Registered

2016-08-04

Start date

2016-03-04

Completion date

2022-01-31

Last updated

2021-12-29

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Conditions

Parkinson Disease

Brief summary

This project aims at assessing the opposite relation, namely the effect of a training of the general timing abilities on gait in Parkinson's disease. Timing rehabilitation will be done by the means of a serious game. Serious games are more and more used to improve the compliance and the efficacy of reeducaiton programs. Overall, we propose to test a low-cost tool for rehabilitation.

Detailed description

Auditory rythmic cueing is a method consisting in presenting a regular auditory stimulus (metronom or music) when someone is walking. It is known to improve gait in pathologies such as Parkinson's disease. It has also an effect on general timing abilities (e.g. tapping the beat of the music). This project aims at assessing the opposite relation, namely the effect of a training of the general timing abilities on gait in Parkinson's disease. Timing rehabilitation will be done by the means of a serious game. Serious games are more and more used to improve the compliance and the efficacy of reeducaiton programs. Overal, we propose to test a low-cost tool for rehabilitation.

Interventions

OTHERRhythm workers training Perceptive timing

Perceptive timing training

OTHERRhythm workers training sensorimotor timing

Sensorimotor timing training

OTHERNo Rhythm workers training

No training

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 80 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* age \< 18 * good understanding of the nature, the goal and the methodology of the study * signing of the informed consent * being insured with a social security * Diagnostic of idiopathic Parkinson's disease following the Queen Square Brain Bank (Hughes, 1992) * Hoehn et Yahr between 2 and 3 * mild to moderate walk and speech deficits (Item MDS-UPDRS) * stable therapy one month before inclusion for all the duration of the study

Exclusion criteria

* Atypic Parkinson Syndrom (oculomotor troubles, early falls, hallucinations, MoCA\<20, early dysautonomy) * dystonia ou dyskinesia preventing from using a tablet (item MDS-UPDRS4.2 \>2) * Unable to move without help (walking stick, walker, wheelchair) (item MDS-UPDRS 2.12 \>2) * adult protected by law * deprivation of liberty * High propability of non compliance to the protocol * pregnant women, nursing women * moderate to severe auditory trouble * Severe walk fluctuations item MDS-UPDRS 4.4 \>2) * Pacemaker or neurosensorial device or heart defebrillator * Cochlear implants * ferromagnetic external bodies claose to the brain * Metallic prothesis * agitated, non cooperative patient * claustrophobic patient * neuro-surgical shunt valves * dental appliance

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Rythmic capacities	3 months	Evaluate the effect of the training of the rythmic capacities (Sensorimotor timing abilities) on the walk and the speak

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
cognitive functions	3 months	Evaluate the cognitive functions by Neurospsychologic tests
Mesure of the neural reorganisation	3 months	Evaluate the structure et connectivity by MRI

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026