Handwriting Rehabilitation in Parkinson Disease (HRPD)

Ospedale Generale Di Zona Moriggia-Pelascini

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Handwriting; Parkinson Disease; Neurorehabilitation

Treatments: Behavioral: Writing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02718560

Handwriting rehab in PD

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of an intensive handwriting treatment in Parkinson's Disease.

Full description

The investigators aimed to understand whether an intensive handwriting treatment with cognitive engagement is more effective than a treatment exploiting only the passive wrist joint mobilization in Parkinson's Disease.

Enrollment: 180 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parkinson's Disease patients

Exclusion criteria

• Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) score < 24
• Left handed subjects
• Subjects with dyskinesias
• Subjects with Deep Brain Stimulation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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180 participants in 4 patient groups

Group 1 - Writing with 1 cm cue

Experimental group

Description:

This group uses to write space of 1 cm size

Treatment:

Behavioral: Writing

Group 2 - Writing with 1.5 cm cue

Experimental group

Description:

This group uses to write space of 1.5 cm size

Treatment:

Behavioral: Writing

Group 3 - Writing without cue

Experimental group

Description:

This group writes without using cues

Treatment:

Behavioral: Writing

Group 4 - no writing

No Intervention group

Description:

This group do not write. Only wrist mobilization is performed.