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The Effect of High-Volume Walking With Visual Cues (VC) in Parkinson´s Disease (PD)

NCT01391741 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 26

Last updated 2011-07-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

People with disease (PD) tend to walk with short steps, decreased velocity, and increased stride time variability. Short steps and increased variability are related to greater fall risk. In addition, concurrent performance of a cognitive task (dual-task (DT)) has marked effects on gait in people with PD which is considered to reflect an impaired automaticity of gait.

Objective: To investigate short and long term effects of high-volume walking with visual spatial cues (VSC) on gait variables, automaticity, and functional mobility, in people with Parkinson´s Disease (PD), compared with walking without VSC.

Conditions

  • Parkinson´s Disease

Interventions

OTHER

Visual Cues

Walking with visual cues for 30 minutes, 4 times a week for 4 weeks

OTHER

Walking without visual cues

Walking without visual cues, but verbal encouragement twice a week to take longer steps, for 30 minutes, 4

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Icelandic Parkinson´s Association.

    collaborator OTHER

  • Icelandic Physiotherapy Association

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Iceland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Andri T Sigurgeirsson, M.Sc. · University of Iceland / Reykjalundur Rehabilitation Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
79 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-04-30
Primary Completion
2008-09-30
Completion
2008-09-30

Countries

  • Iceland

Study Locations

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