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High Versus Low Frequency rTMS on Motor Dysfunction in PD

NCT03342846 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2020-09-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of the study is to compare high versus low frequency rTMS on motor dysfunction in PD. Forty patients with PD participated in the study.

The patients were randomly assigned into two groups; the first group received 1Hz and the 2nd one received 20 Hz rTMS daily for 10 days 5 sessions every week. The doctors who assess the patients clinically is blind for the frequency of rTMS, also patients don't know which type of stimulation they received. The patients were followed up before and after the 10 sessions and one month later.

Conditions

  • Parkinson Disease

Interventions

DEVICE

rTMS

the first group received 20 Hz and the 2nd group received 1 Hz rTMS daily for 10 days 5 sessions every week on M1.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Assiut University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • eman M Khedr, MD · Professor of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-08-20
Primary Completion
2018-02-25
Completion
2018-02-25

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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