Physical therapy to improve walking in people with Parkinson's Disease.
- Conditions
- Parkinson Disease.C10.228.140.079.862.500
- Registration Number
- RBR-6bvnx6
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade Federal do Espírito Santo
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Participants will be individuals with Parkinson’s Disease, who will be eligible, if they: are over 40 years of age; are able to walk at least 14 meters, independently, with or without assistive devices; walk at speeds lower than 1.1 m/s; have experienced freezing episodes over the past month, according to the Part I of the New Freezing of Gait Questionnaire (Nieuwboer et al 2009); have adapted to their current anti-Parkinsonian medication for at least 2 weeks; provide written consent.
They will be excluded, if they: have cognitive deficits, which will be screened by the Mini-Mental State Examination. The cut-off scores are 26 for people with high levels of education, 18 for people with elementary and middle levels, and 13 for illiterate people (Bertolucci et al 1994);suffer from unstable cardiovascular disease or other uncontrolled chronic conditions that would interfere with the safety and conduct of the training and testing protocol or interpretation of the results; over 100 years of age.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary outcome is comfortable walking speed, measured by the 10-m Walk Test, and reported in m/s.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method