Manual Therapy in Parkinson's Disease

University of La Laguna

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Parkinson Disease

Treatments: Other: Sham Manual Protocol; Other: Manual Therapy Protocol

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06853262

CHUC_2024_28

Details and patient eligibility

About

An experimental study will be carried out to examine how a manual therapy protocol can influence a series of parameters related to motor and non-motor symptoms in patients who have Parkinson's disease / Parkinsonism.

To do this, an intervention will be carried out that will last a minimum of 6 weeks. In addition to their ongoing treatment, the study subjects will receive a maximum of 2 sessions of manual therapy each week. They will undergo a series of measurements both before and after the intervention related to gait, balance, non-motor symptoms, and some more specific parameters of gait.

The study's main objective is to obtain information about possible treatment models based on manual therapy for Parkinson's disease. It is also hoped to compile a series of results that will lead to conclusions and benefit the development of physiotherapy for this disease. It is also hoped that this will help those affected so that the treatment is as comprehensive as possible and that the physiotherapist can use as many tools as are available to them to address the pathology.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• People aged between 40 and 75 who voluntarily agree to take part in this study

Exclusion criteria

• People with Dementia and established cognitive impairment with scores on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test (MoCA) of less than 25

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Manual Therapy Protocol

Experimental group

Description:

The study subjects will receive a maximum of two manual therapy sessions per week for a minimum of six weeks. The variables will be measured before and after the six weeks for the secondary variables and during all the sessions for the main variables of nervous system activity. The intervention protocol consists of a maximum of 15 manual therapy techniques, which will always be carried out in the same order. The estimated time for each technique is 90 seconds. Therefore, the intervention protocol will last approximately 25-35 minutes. Before starting treatment, the patient will receive a document with all the information regarding the study and the informed consent form, which the research team must fill out and sign before the intervention.

Treatment:

Other: Manual Therapy Protocol

Sham Manual Protocol

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Manual intervention protocol with placebo techniques where the hands are placed on the same areas as in the experimental protocol techniques

Treatment:

Other: Sham Manual Protocol