Multisensory Training in PD

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Parkinson Disease

Treatments: Other: Conventional training; Other: Multisensory training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05027555

21MMHIS153e

Details and patient eligibility

About

People with Parkinson's disease (PD) were characterized by many motor symptoms, including rigidity, postural instability, bradykinesia, and resting tremor. These motor symptoms might cause gait dysfunction. Gait dysfunction represented a common sign of PD, including reduced gait velocity, reduced stride length, reduced arm swing, and increased gait variability. Poor postural control in people with PD might result to increase gait variability and then increase fall risk. Previous studies reported that proprioceptive-vestibular multisensory training improved postural stability in people with PD. However, no literature investigated the effects of proprioceptive-vestibular multisensory training on gait variability. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the effect of proprioceptive-vestibular multisensory training on gait variability in people with PD.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Idiopathic PD
• Hoehn and Yahr stage I to III
• Age 60~80 y/o
• Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) ≥24
• Ability to ambulate independently (with or without walking aid)

Exclusion criteria

• Affecting the peripheral vestibular system
• Medical condition that substantially influenced their gait and balance performance
• People had joined any rehabilitation past 1 month

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Multisensory training group

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention is a 50-minute session and 2-sessions/week, totaling 6 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Multisensory training

Conventional training group.

Active Comparator group

Description:

The intervention is a 50-minute session and 2-sessions/week, totaling 6 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Conventional training