Effects of rolling along the longitudinal axis on postural control in patients with Parkinson`s disease: a randomised controlled pilot study
- Conditions
- G20Parkinson disease
- Registration Number
- DRKS00034250
- Lead Sponsor
- Klinikum Bad Hall & Bad Schallerbach, Standort Bad Hall
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 32
Stage 1 to 4 according to Hoehn & Yahr with ON medication (Hoehn and Yahr, 1967)
-Age =18 years
-Any ethnicity
-Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score =24 out of 30 points (Tombaugh and McIntyre, 1992)
-Stable dosage of dopaminergic replacement therapy at least 3 weeks before the start of the study or still without dopaminergic treatment for the duration of the study intervention
-German spoken and written
- Concomitant disease(s) (such as malignant diseases, other neurological, serious orthopaedic, cardiac, or psychiatric diseases, major depression, dementia)
- Orthostatic hypotension
- Non-Parkinsonian gait disorder (e.g. due to musculoskeletal symptoms)
- Recent surgical intervention
- uncorrected visual or hearing impairment that would interfere with training or assessments
- joint replacement therapies within the last six months
- Spinal surgery within the last twelve months
- Pregnancy, verified by a pregnancy test
- Pronounced degenerative spinal diseases (stiffening)
- Recent deep brain stimulation (DBS) or change in DBS parameters within the last year
- Severe motor fluctuations
Initiation of a new dopaminergic medication or adjustment of the same within the study period is not planned; in the sense of a real-life setting, this decision is the responsibility of the investigator.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Static and dynamic balance, assessed using the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) at baseline and 3-week post-intervention.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method