Tackling freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease
- Conditions
- Parkinson's disease10028037
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON30278
- Lead Sponsor
- Academisch Medisch Centrum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 30
Inclusion Criteria
Parkinson's disease
Ability to walk without help for 10 minutes on a treadmill
Exclusion Criteria
atypical hypokinetic rigid syndrome
cognitive impairment (Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) score <24)
other cause of gait disorder (neurological, muscles, bones, visual, balance)
major psychiatric disease
major comorbidity
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Visual assessment of videotaped gait performance on the treadmill will be used<br /><br>as gold clinical standard; primary outcome is occurence of freezing of gait.</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>We propose an elaborate and sophisticated battery of outcome measures to<br /><br>optimise detection of subtle FOG manifestations. Measures in both experiments<br /><br>will include kinematics of individual body segments, reactive forces under the<br /><br>feet and telemetric (wireless) surface electromyography of eight muscles.</p><br>