Treadmill Training and Quality of Life in Parkinson's Disease

Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos

Status

Completed

Conditions

Parkinson's Disease

Treatments

Other: Treadmill walking training with additional body load

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00890669

CEP/UFSCar

234/07

Details and patient eligibility

About

Parkinson's disease (PD) causes motor and non-motor impairments that affect the quality of life of the subjects. The purpose was to assess the effects of treadmill walking training with additional body load on the quality of life and motor symptoms of the subjects with PD.

Methods: Nine subjects with PD, Hoehn and Yahr stages 2 through 3, not demented and with capability to ambulate independently voluntarily participate in this study. The training program was divided into three phases (A1-B-A2): treadmill training with additional body load (A1), control condition (conventional physical therapy group) (B) and treadmill training with load again (A2). Each phase lasted six weeks. The quality of life and motor symptoms were assessed by PDQ-39 and UPDRS, respectively. Both evaluations and training were performed during on-phase of the medication cycle.

Enrollment

9 patients

Sex

All

Ages

51 to 81 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Hoehn and Yahr (H-Y) stages 2 through 3
Absence of dementia (Mini-Mental Status Examination - MMSE, defined according to educational level)
Capacity to ambulate independently for at least 10 meters

Exclusion criteria

Change medication (dopaminergic) during the study period
Use treadmill for at least six months prior to the study
Other neurologic problems or musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and respiratory disease or uncorrected visual deficit that could represent risk and interfere in the accomplishment of the training