Assessing the Role of Exercise Intensity in Slowing Disease Progression in Early Parkinson's Disease

Austin Health

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Parkinson's Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00385073

126/05

Details and patient eligibility

About

Participants will complete a self-selected intensity of exercising over a 6 month period, with detailed clinical assessments at commencement and completion to determine the rate of progression of parkinsonism and gait abnormalities

Full description

Participants will complete a self-selected intensity of exercising over a 6 month period - including jogging, swimming and circuit training, with detailed clinical assessments at commencement and completion (including UPDRS, gaitrite lab study) to determine the rate of progression of parkinsonism and gait abnormalities

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Early Parkinson's Disease,
• Able to provide informed consent,
• able to complete exercise diaries for 6 months,
• no medications or on levo-dopa

Exclusion criteria

• Not on dopamine agonists,