Proprioception and Meditation

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Proprioceptive Disorders; Movement Disorders; Parkinson Disease
• Interventions: Other: Proprioceptive Drills; Other: Yoga Meditation

• Registration Number: NCT03079817
• Lead Sponsor: University of Miami

Brief Summary

In past work is has been shown that yoga can be as effective as a standard balance or Tai Chi protocol; however, there is an inability to distinguish between the mind and body contributions of yoga training. This study will compare an accepted proprioceptive training program to a meditation program which concentrates on body awareness in individuals with Parkinson's disease.

Detailed Description

Not available

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-01-17
• Study First Submitted: 2017-03-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-03-08
• Study First Posted: 2017-03-15
• Primary Completion: 2018-03-30
• Study Completion: 2019-07-30
• Status Verified: 2019-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-08-02
• Last Update Posted: 2019-08-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

• An individual must be between 40 and 90 years of age with mild to moderate Parkinson's Disease (Hoehn & Yahr stages I-III).

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Exclusion Criteria

• Participants that have been part of a formal training program that targeted lower body strength, balance or proprioception within the past six months
• Participants that have any uncontrolled nerve (except Parkinson's patients taking appropriate medication), bone or joint, or heart disease;
• Participants that have been advised by a doctor to not exercise;
• Participants that have regularly practiced yoga at least twice per week within the past six months;
• Participants that is unable to consent;
• Participants that is a prisoner;
• Participants that are pregnant.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Proprioceptive Drills	Proprioceptive Drills	Includes drills during which participants perform multiplestances on a pillow, a number of different cone and line drills, reaching drills, object retrieval drills and drills using balls to disturb balance.
Yoga Meditation	Yoga Meditation	The meditation program will use simple poses during which the participant will not move and will concentrate on each of the participant's body parts and where they are in space.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Joint Position Sense	20 minutes	The joint position sense technique for the knee involves the reduction of visual cues while moving the knee to a specific target angle, holding that target angle, returning the knee to the starting position, and then reproducing that target angle.
Tinetti balance and gait.	3 minutes.	A subjective evaluation of Balance and gait.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Joint Kinesthesia	20 minutes	The Joint Kinesthesia measurement technique involves the participant sitting in the Biodex chair with visual, audio, and tactile cues reduced and the leg supported by an external movement device. The knee is placed at a predetermined angle and slowly flexed or extended at a random starting time while the participant is instructed to signal when movement is felt.
8ft Up and Go	60 seconds	Individuals sits in a chair at the verbal cue of "go", individual rises from chair and walks as quickly as possible around a cone placed 8 ft from the front of the chair, individual returns to and sits.
Dynamic Posturography	5 minutes	The participant stands on a randomly moving platform with a sonar emitter affixed to the lumbar spine. As the platform moves the linear and curvilinear displacement of the emitter is evaluated and a dynamic movement analysis core is generated.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Laboratory of Neruomuscular Research and Active Aging; 🇺🇸 Coral Gables, Florida, United States