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Gait Training With Executive Functions Tasks in Subjects With Parkinson´s Disease: A Study Protocol

NCT01650610 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2012-11-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of this study is the development and implementation of a new protocol of a physical therapy training, based on a gait training associated with executive tasks, for treatment of individuals with Parkinson's Disease.

The hypothesis is that this group of patients who will carry out training of this study protocol will show improvement in measured parameters (functionality of gait and cognitive ability), which allows this protocol to be improved and published as a proposal of physiotherapeutic treatment.

Conditions

  • Parkinson´s Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Gait training executive functions tasks

The training will consist of 10 sessions, two times per week for five weeks, and consists of 30 minutes of global exercises that involves stretching, muscle strengthen and axial mobility exercises, and another 30 minutes of gait training in a dual-task condition associated with distracting tasks that require handling of the main executive functions: volition, self-awareness, planning, response inhibition, response monitoring and attention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Maria Elisa P Piemonte, PhD · University of Sao Paulo

  • Cynthia B Ferrari, PhD Student · University of Sao Paulo

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-07-31
Primary Completion
2013-02-28
Completion
2013-07-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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