Action Observation Treatment in Parkinson's Patients (AOT-PA)

Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus Foundation

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Parkinson

Treatments: Behavioral: AOT; Behavioral: MI

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04181918

AOTPRFDG

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to assess the role of Action Observation Treatment (AOT) and Motor Imagery (MI) in the rehabilitation of Parkinson's disease patients, as compared to a control condition. Main outcome measures will be the results in two functional scales (FIM, UPDRS) and kinematics parameters obtained from gait analysis. Data at two months and six months follow up, respectively, will be also collected.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parkinson disease patients on Hoehn and Yahr 3-4

Exclusion criteria

• Mini-Mental State Examination < 24
• Fluent aphasic patients
• Apraxia
• Neglect
• major neuropsychiatric disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 3 patient groups

AOT

Experimental group

Description:

This group will observe videos depicting daily actions and afterwards they will execute the seen actions

Treatment:

Behavioral: AOT

MI

Experimental group

Description:

This group will imagine motorically the same action as the first group and afterwards they will execute the imagined actions

Treatment:

Behavioral: MI

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

This group will neither observe nor imagine actions, but simply observe videos with no motor content. Afterwards they will execute the same actions as in AOT and MI.