Online Dance Versus Therapeutic Exercise for Parkinson Disease.

Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parkinson Disease

Treatments: Other: Dance & Music (Online); Other: Multimodal Therapeutic Exercise & Music (Online)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05910216

ONLINEREHABPD

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a randomized clinical trial in an online format, which will only include people with PD randomly divided into two groups:

Group 1 - Social Telerehabilitation with Dance and Music Group 2 - Social Telerehabilitation with Multimodal Therapeutic Exercise and Music

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of idiopathic PD according to the clinical criteria of the London Brain Bank Criteria (2006);
• Age between 40-90 years;
• A minimum score of 18 in the Montreal Cognitive Assessment;
• Drug therapy/exercise stable for at least four weeks before the study starts;
• Agreement to participate in the study according to the Informed Consent Form.

Exclusion criteria

• Auditory and/or visual disturbances that compromise understanding simple commands;
• Access to the internet and a device to access online classes;
• A house member and/or caregiver at home for supervision during the entire experiment, including evaluations and interventions. For patients scoring less than 2.5 points on the modified Hoehn and Yahr Scale (indicating mild disease impairment, independence in daily living activities, and no risk of falls), the requirement for household member supervision may be waived.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Group Dance & Music (Online)

Experimental group

Description:

Social Telerehabilitation with Dance \& Music (Online): The dance intervention will be instructed by a physiotherapist and dance professional, who will follow a structure based on the materials of the Dance for Parkinson's (USA) ® method

Treatment:

Other: Dance & Music (Online)

Group Multimodal Therapeutic Exercise & Music (Online)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Social Telerehabilitation with Multimodal Therapeutic Exercise \& Music (Online): The intervention with multimodal therapeutic exercise will be instructed by a physiotherapist, who will follow a structure based on a previous study and Physical Therapy Guidelines for People with PD

Treatment:

Other: Multimodal Therapeutic Exercise & Music (Online)