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Shoulder Disorders in Patients With Parkinson's Disease

NCT02702232 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2020-12-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a multisystem neurodegenerative disorder that is increasingly recognized in our ageing population. It is characterized by cardinal clinical features including bradykinesia, tremor, rigidity, and postural instability. For most people with PD, the most serious concern is with the motor system: stiffness, slowness of movement, impaired handwriting and coordination, poor mobility and balance. However, more than half of all people with PD have experienced painful symptoms. Most people experience aching, stiffness, numbness and tingling at some point in the course of the illness. Defazio et al reported that pain may begin at clinical onset of PD or thereafter as a non-motor feature of PD.5 Aching muscles and joints are especially common in PD. Rigidity, lack of spontaneous movement, abnormalities of posture and awkward mechanical stresses all contribute to musculoskeletal pain in PD.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Ultrasonography

Ultrasonography is applied for normal subjects and patients with Parkinson's disease

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-31
Primary Completion
2017-12-31
Completion
2018-01-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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Diseases

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