Acupuncture for improving gait disturbance in Parkinson’s disease: A study protocol of pilot randomized controlled trial.
- Conditions
- Diseases of the nervous system
- Registration Number
- KCT0002603
- Lead Sponsor
- Dunsan Korean Medicine Hospital of Daejeon University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 26
1) Diagnosis with PD by a neurologist.
2) Having ability to walk 10 meters.
3) Meeting the Hoehn and Yahr scale (stage 1-4)
4) Stable dose of conventional treatment related with PD for at least 1 month
1) Diagnosis with Altzhimer dementia, vascular dementia, huntington's disease, and hydrocephalus.
2) Having gait disturbance causing stroke, brain tumor, and brain disease
3) Diagnosis with gastrointestinal disease, endocrine disease, and cardiovascular disease that don't treated by food and medication
4) Identifying severely unstable medical condition by research doctor
5) Having history of neuropsychiatric disorder
6) Having a allergy reaction on stainless steel needle and metals
7) Receiving treatment on gait disturbance for a least 2 weeks
8) Participating other clinical trials for a least 4 weeks
9) disability to measure fNIRS
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Speed of gait
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Hemodynamic change using fNIRS system;Molecular analysis-Plasma and serum neurotransmitters(NTs);Mobility (GAITRite system & UPDRS score);Assessment of immediate effect of acupuncture (GAITRite system & UPDRS score);Assessment of accumulating and sustained effect of acupuncture;mRNA assay