The Effect of Mindfulness Movement Therapy Programme on the Motor Performance of the Upper Limbs in Healthy Older Adults: A Randomized Single-Blind Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Elderly peopleTherapeutic Techniques and Equipment E
- Registration Number
- TCTR20170713002
- Lead Sponsor
- Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending (Not yet recruiting)
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 44
- Participants’ age range is between 55 to 65 years old.
- Participants’ scores on miniâ€mental state examination: Thai version (MMSE †Thai 2002) should be ≥ 14 who did not study, ≥ 17 who studied primary school, and ≥ 22 who studied higher than primary school.
- Participants have to pass all five criteria of standardized screening for healthy elderly people.
- Participants will be required to pass a safety screening questionnaire for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
- Participants that had any other neurological illness (Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, stroke)
- Participants that had shoulder pain and frozen shoulder.
- Participants that had an epilepsy, history or family history of seizures.
- Participants that take any drug that might lower seizure threshold.
- Participants that had an intracranial metallic or magnetic pieces (such as skull plates, cochlear implants, an internal pulse generator or medication pumps)
- Participants that had heart pacemaker
- Participants that had alcoholism.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The Jebsen Hand Function Test 8 weeks All mentioned activities will be recorded for their time used by stop watch.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method motor threshold, motor-evoked potential, and central motor conduction time 8 weeks single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation