Comparison of kinematic variables of gait on a treadmill and on the ground of individuals with Parkinson's Disease
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- parkinson's disease
- Registration Number
- RBR-5x67ry
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruitment completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
Independent walking; not be in pharmacological adaptation phase; no pain, fracture, or serious injury to soft tissues in the 6 months previous to the study; no history of cognitive, respiratory or cardiovascular disorders not controlled; be classified in stages I to III of Hoehn Yahr scale.
Exclusion Criteria
Present other neurological diseases than Parkinson's disease;to present score lower than 24 on the Mini Mental State Examination that will be applied before the collections.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method It is expected to verify that the gait variables analyzed in treadmill and soil are similar. For that will be used two video cameras that will enable the analysis of width and step length of the participants while walking on the soil (5 turns on the oval circuit) and the treadmill (walking for 30 minutes in preference speed). The images captured by the cameras are analyzed by a computer program, and the significance level for the desired outcome is achieved is p > 0.05, meaning that the width and step length values on the treadmill and soil are similar.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method During the 30 minutes that participants walk on the treadmill, the variables length and step width will be analyzed every five minutes to check for linearity values. Also will be added the calculation of step length variability, because this details the step length measures and is an important measure of flaws in the neural mechanisms of motion control. It is expected that a linearity is observed in the values of the variables during the course of the analyzed minutes on the treadmill.