Innovative Physical Therapy Modalities in People With a Neurological Disease: Oculomotor Therapy and Adapted Yoga (NeuPhysioLRG)

University of Malaga

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Physical Inactivity; Oculomotor; Disorder; Treatment Adherence; Nervous System Diseases; Physical Dependence

Treatments: Other: Oculomotor therapy; Other: Adapted yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05709691

UMalagaLR

Details and patient eligibility

About

Physiotherapy is a discipline which englobe not only the rehabilitation of physical pathologies but also their prevention. That is why this study pretends to upgrade this part of the physical therapy specialty while prove new therapies using innovation technologies in people with any physical neurological disease. The main problem that this study pretends to solve is the necessity of develop new activities to improve quality of life and integration in people with any physical neurological disease.

People with any neurological disease used to present visual problems, pain, fatigue, functional dependence, and a bad quality of life and it appears that exercise habits could improve all these deficiencies. However, how could people with any physical neurological disease participate in an integrated way in nowadays physical activities? The main objective of this study is to prove the effectiveness on visual acuity, quality of life, pain decreasing, functional independence and fatigue of physical therapy modalities in people with any physical neurological disease.

The experiment will take part with 128 participants, divided equally in control and experimental groups. Both are going to receive adapted yoga sessions but only experiment group is going to test oculomotor therapy. Descriptive investigation would take part at the end of the intervention to analyze all results.

Full description

Participants will complete several questionnaires at the start and at the end of the study, to quantify the progress. Also, a professional will evaluate the sessions.

Sessions are going to be online and offline, and both will be recorded (with the registered permission of the participants), so they could be analyzed lately.

Enrollment: 128 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Users equal or over 18 years old.
• To have already signed all the obligatory documents.
• To have a physical neurological disease.
• To have an electronic with internet connection.
• To collaborate on the correct develop of the project.

Exclusion criteria

• Serious cognitive or physical damage.
• Doctor disapproval.
• Be unable to understand the indications.
• Be unable to read.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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128 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

Oculomotor therapy and adapted yoga.

Treatment:

Other: Adapted yoga

Other: Oculomotor therapy

Active Comparator

Active Comparator group

Description:

Adapted yoga.

Treatment:

Other: Adapted yoga