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Can Dance Therapy Improve Motor Learning in Parkinson's Disease (PD)?

NCT03549793 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2018-06-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

In order to find the most effective rehabilitative therapies for Parkinsonian patients, the present study is aimed to evaluate whether, in a multidisciplinary intensive rehabilitation treatment, the dance therapy, applied to the motor learning, promote additional benefits.

Conditions

  • Parkinson Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Dance Therapy

the intervention is aimed to ameliorate, through dancing, crucial motor symptoms in PD patients, as walking, balance, postural changes and arm swing

BEHAVIORAL

exercises without dance

the intervention consists of exercises aimed at training the walking, the balance, the postural changes and the arm swing

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ospedale Generale Di Zona Moriggia-Pelascini

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Giuseppe Frazzitta, MD · Department of Parkinson's disease, Movement Disorders and Brain Injury Rehabilitation, "Moriggia-Pelascini" Hospital - Via Pelascini, 3, 22015, Gravedona ed Uniti, Como, Italy

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-04-01
Primary Completion
2018-06-01
Completion
2018-06-30

Countries

  • Italy

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