Fall, Parkinson Disease
Conditions
Keywords
Parkinson Disease
Brief summary
Gait disorder is a disabling symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD) affecting all patients during the course. Three methods of treadmill training (TT) will be compared to assess additional augmented reality (AR), or additional dual task (DT). AR TT, DT TT, and TT alone applied over 3 weeks at each day will be compared for their impact on falls, walking, freezing and attention for 3 months in a double blinded randomized controlled trial during regular neurorehabilitation.
Interventions
PD Patients will be randomized to treadmill training with augmented reality or to treadmill training with random number generation or to treadmill training for 3 weeks at 5 days a week for 30 minutes.
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Informed Consent as documented by signature * Parkinson´s disease without dementia and hallucination * at least one fall within the past 3 months or postural instability * Gait disorder * Hoehn and Yahr stages II-IV * able to perform the treadmill therapy during a study
Exclusion criteria
* Contraindications to treadmill therapy (e.g. hip fracture) * Dementia as defined by an Montreal cognitive assessment (MOCA) \< 20
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Frequency of falls | 3 months before study to 3 months following the study | group difference of the difference in falls |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Secondary outcomes: | before and after the training period of 3 weeks | Freezing of Gait (FOG) Questionnaire |
| Sensor based gait analyses | before and after the training period of 3 weeks and after 3 months | for one week |
Countries
Switzerland
Contacts
Department of Neurology, Kliniken Valens