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Treadmill Training and Quality of Life in Parkinson's Disease

NCT00890669 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 9

Last updated 2009-05-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Treadmill walking training with additional body load

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 additional body load again (A2). Each phase lasted six weeks, totaling 18 weeks. Both evaluations and training were performed during on-phase of the medication cycle.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nadiesca T Filippin, MSc · Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos

  • Rosana Mattioli, PhD · Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos

  • Paula H Lobo da Costa, PhD · Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
51 Years
Max Age
81 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-08-31
Completion
2008-12-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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