The assessment of the quality of movement control in patients with Parkinson*s disease receiving deep brain stimulation.
Completed
- Conditions
- Parkinson's disease10028037
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON30995
- Lead Sponsor
- Medisch Spectrum Twente
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 10
Inclusion Criteria
- Parkinson patients having a deep brain stimulator in the subthalamic nucleus
- Patients experiencing a good clinical result from DBS
- Patients having no major fluctuations in symptoms due to medication
- Patients being in good physical condition
- Patients responding within 5 minutes to changes in the stimulator settings
Exclusion Criteria
- Patients not being able to fully cooperate with the experiments
- Patients suffering from dementia
- Patients suffering from severe dyskinesia
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Parameters (obtained from the inertial sensors) relating to the UPDRS-scores<br /><br>for tremor, bradykinesia, and akinesia during three conditions are compared.<br /><br>These conditions are stimulator on with normal settings, stimulator on with<br /><br>altered settings, and stimulator off.<br /><br>The correlations of these parameters to the UPDRS-scores of tremor,<br /><br>bradykinesia, and akinesia is also assessed.</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>not applicable</p><br>