The Effects of Treadmill Versus Agility Training in Parkinson's Disease

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Parkinson's Disease; Exercise
• Interventions: Behavioral: Aerobic vs. Agility Training

• Registration Number: NCT00982709
• Lead Sponsor: Oregon Health and Science University

Brief Summary

Aim:

To determine the Responsiveness of the iMOBILITY in response to intensive physical therapy exercise programs. (Is it sensitive to change?) Although exercise is thought to be the most effective intervention for balance and gait in PD (compared to dopaminergic medication or DBS surgery), the best exercise program for mobility in PD is unknown. The iMOBILITY will be used to quantify balance and gait performance before and after two PT-supervised, intensive, exercise programs, expected to improve balance and gait. The first program is a published Treadmill training program and the second is the investigators new Agility training program with sensorimotor progressions, targeted at specific impairments that underlie the abnormalities of balance and gait in PD (developed for the Kinetics Foundation). This pilot clinical trial will randomize 40 PD subjects into the two exercise programs at OHSU in preparation for a larger clinical trial to determine the most effective exercise for mobility disability in PD. The effects of exercise will be compared with no treatment during a 5-week delay prior to start of exercise.

This trial will also determine the relative responsiveness (compared to traditional clinical scales) of the iMOBILITY for testing the hypothesis that intensive exercise can improve mobility in PD. We will use existing instruments (Berg Balance Scale, BEST of dynamic balance, UPDRS, PDQ-39, 5 times sit-to-stand time and the Functional Performance Battery) to show there is a difference between the exercise groups. Superior responsiveness of the iMOBILITY system will be determined by larger differences with exercise intervention with the iMOBILITY system than with traditional clinical measures of mobility in PD.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-01
• Study First Submitted: 2009-09-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-09-22
• Study First Posted: 2009-09-23
• Primary Completion: 2011-01
• Study Completion: 2011-01
• Status Verified: 2014-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-10-31
• Last Update Posted: 2014-11-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• Diagnosis of Idiopathic PD

Exclusion Criteria

• Other neurological conditions, artificial joints

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Exercise Types	Aerobic vs. Agility Training	comparing two different exercise programs for PD

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Dynamic Posturography	pre and post intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
UPDRS	pre and post intervention

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Oregon Health and Science University; 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States