Effects of Dance on the Turning Characteristics of Patients With Parkinson's Disease

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parkinson Disease(PD)

Treatments: Other: No intervention; Other: Dance

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05113524

33547920.9.0000.5347

12/18/NH/UOW (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed control intervention trial, aims to analyse the effects of Dance in the turning characteristics in patients with Parkinson Disease (PD) using three- dimensional (3D) analysis during the timed up and go (TUG) test.

Full description

Experimental Design: control intervention non-randomized trial. Search Location: University of Wolverhaptom, Walsall Campus, United Kingdom; Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Participants: 15 adults aged between 50 and 80 years, with a clinical diagnosis of idiopathic PD, staging between 1 and 4 of the Hoehn & Yahr Scale, recruited from Dance for Parkinson's Projects, West-Midlands County, United Kingdom, and from Parkinson's UK (United Kingdom).

Interventions: Dance intervention for 3 months, 2 times/week (1 instructor lecture session and 1 home session following a prepared video), 2 hours per week. Controls, not alter their personal lifestyle, but undergo the same testing as the exercise intervention group.

Outcomes: clinical-functional parameters (number of steps and total time of the 180 turning phase of the Timed up and go Test - TUG - and biomechanics parameter - girdle dissociation) Data Analysis: Data will be described by average values and standard deviation values. All statistical analyses will be carried out using SPSS version 23, and Microsoft Excel Program version 16.44. The significance level is set at p<0.05. The Cohen's d is going to be used to predict effect interpreted as small d= 0.2, medium d=0.5, and large d=0.8, and 95% confidence intervals were presented.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Confirmed diagnosis of PD according to the London Brain Bank Criteria;
• Able to understand the verbal instructions for the tests and to walk;
• Or attempt to walk independently with no walking aid.

Exclusion criteria

• Recent surgeries,
• Deep brain stimulation (DBS);
• Severe heart diseases, uncontrolled hypertension, myocardial infarction within a period of less than one year;
• Fitted with a pacemaker;
• Prostheses in the lower limbs;
• Stroke or other associated neurological diseases.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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15 participants in 2 patient groups

Dance

Experimental group

Description:

Dance intervention for 3 months, 2 times/week (1 instructor lecture session and 1 home session following a prepared video), 2 hours per week. Dance is a safe and effective form of activity, which has been used in PD population (Delabary et al., 2017; Sharp and Hewitt, 2014). Participants take part in a dance class specifically for people with PD lead by a qualified dance instructor. The dance class typically include a warm-up, dance related activities (specific to the genre of the class) and a cool-down.

Treatment:

Other: Dance

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Controls, not alter their personal lifestyle, but undergo the same testing as the exercise intervention group.

Treatment:

Other: No intervention