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Effects of Intensity-matched Agility and Cycling Exercise Training on PD Patients' Clinical Symptoms, Posture, and Mobility

NCT03193268 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2

Last updated 2020-05-04

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Summary

Determine the short-term and lasting effects of intensity-matched exercise programs on level 2-3 PD patients' clinical symptoms, postural control, and mobility.

Hypothesis

1. The inclusion of a Borg-scale/heart-rate matched active control group will allow us to test the idea that, in addition to a fitness element, the reflexive movements that chellenge PD patients' sensorimotor system will improve patients' clinical symptoms, posture, and mobility more than fitness training and that such lasting effects will be superior in the agility compared with the fitness-control group. This hypothesis emered from the idea that the favorable results in the currently under review paper may be in part due to a simple conditioning effect instead of a specific motor learning effect caused by the xbox training.
2. If feasible, i.e., if there is a lerge enough pool of patients to randomize, a balance training group will be also added to test the idea that the reflexive actions evoked by the agility program by xbox exergaming still produce superior adaptations vs. the balance group because xbox forces patients to rapidly and reflexively execute movements (respond to cues, prompts), while balance training allows patients to stop, go, stop, and go and disrupt the continous execution of linked movements. The disruptions of movement chains could arise from small losses of balance on the unstabel surfaces, need for patients to re-initiate every movement element of a sequence, planning each movement element. It is not clear yet how it woul be possible to match all three intervention groups on Borg/heart rate intensity.

Conditions

  • Parkinson Disease
  • Balance
  • Rehabilitation
  • Motor Function

Interventions

OTHER

Single-blind RTC of PD patients

The groups participate in observation for 5 weeks. Two groups take part in a motion therapy over the 5-week period.

OTHER

cycling

Patients must undergo a daily exercise cycle of 1 hour during the intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Somogy Megyei Kaposi Mór Teaching Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
55 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-10-15
Primary Completion
2017-11-21
Completion
2017-11-21

Countries

  • Hungary

Study Locations

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