Virtual Reality Effects on Functional Capacity and Quality of Life of People With Parkinson's Disease

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parkinson Disease

Treatments: Other: Virtual Reality with X- Box Kinect®; Other: conventional physiotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02786433

CAAE: 18732713.0.0000.5193

Details and patient eligibility

About

Introduction: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder of dopaminergic neurons that can cause some mobility limitations and it has association with quality of life (QOL) in patients with PD. Virtual reality (VR) has been used to treat of these patients Objective: Evaluate the functional capacity and QOL of individuals with PD using VR with X-Box Kinect®. Methods: Were selected 20 individuals classified as stages 1-3, aged 50-75 years. They were divided by lot into two groups (control and experimental) with ten patients in each. The group (CG) treated with exercises (conventional therapy) during five-week, with two sessions per week lasting 60 minutes, while the experimental group (EG) spent half the time with conventional physical therapy and other half of time in virtual rehabilitation (VR). Subjects were evaluated before and after treatment using the following scales: Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale and Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire .

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with clinical diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease
• Male and female
• Stage 1-3 of the Hoehn and Yahr scale.

Exclusion criteria

• Have other neurological diseases
• They have decompensated systemic diseases
• Musculoskeletal changes that prevent the achievement of movements
• With lowering of the cognitive level assessed using the MiniMental State examination with cutoff point according to education
• With respiratory impairment
• With medical restrictions for performing exercises
• In physical therapy, occupational therapy service for 3 months or more;

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

GROUP CONTROL

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants in the control group only underwent conventional physiotherapy. Conventional therapy includes stretching and strengthening exercises with cane aid, leggings , elastic band and overball for upper and lower limbs , in addition to gait and balance training. The intervention for the control group was applied for five weeks with sessions of 60 minutes twice a week

Treatment:

Other: conventional physiotherapy

EXPERIMENTAL GROUP

Experimental group

Description:

The subjects in the experimental group underwent conventional physiotherapy (The same applied in the control group) associated with virtual reality , performed with the console X -Box Kinect® of Microsoft. Durante the achievement of the virtual reality practice, Kinect and Kinect games Adventures® Dance® demanded the anterior movements players -posterior and lateral , as well as jumps and squats to get rid of the game obstacles. They Kinect Dance® game were all required movements of the previous game more dance . The intervention lasted five weeks , with two weekly sessions lasting 30 minutes to conventional therapy and 30 minutes to virtual reality.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual Reality with X- Box Kinect®