Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Freezing of Gait

Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Parkinsonian Disorders

Treatments

Device: rTMS Supplementary motor area

Device: rTMS Motor cortex

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01853150

2013-022

Details and patient eligibility

About

Freezing of gait (FOG) means that patients cannot walk without any known causes, other than parkinsonism, which is very disabling symptom. Patients descirbe their feeling of the feet suddenly being glued to the floor. Transcranial magnetic stiumation is a noninvasive procedure using electromagnetic induction to stimulate brain. Transcranial magnetic stiumation (rTMS) can selectively change brain activity to enhance desired effects. The aim of this study is to the therapeutic effect of rTMS for the FOG.

Enrollment

12 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 85 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Parkinson's disease or Primary progressive freezing of gait
age 18 and older
Freezing of gait

Exclusion criteria

pregnant or any, other medical, surgical, neurological or psychiatric conditions
other restrictions which prevent you from undergoing TMS recording, such as; surgically or traumatically implanted foreign bodies such as a pacemaker, an implanted medication pump, a metal plate in the skull, or metal inside the skull or eyes (other than dental appliances or fillings), and/ or heart/cardiac lines
any past or current history of seizure disorder or epilepsy
unable to give informed consent