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Mobility in Daily Life and Falls in Parkinson's Disease: Potential for Rehabilitation

NCT04897256 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 55

Last updated 2025-11-17

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Summary

The goal of this intervention is to explore the effectiveness of a Turning Intervention (TURN-IT) to improve quality of turning in participants with Parkinson's Disease (PD). An unique exercise program has been developed - TURN-IT - in which participants practice exercises that focus on physiological constraints that impair turning ability, such as axial rigidity, narrow base of support, bradykinesia, and inflexible set-shifting. The 60 participants with PD and a history of falls in the previous 12 months, will be randomized into a 6-week, 3x/week, one-on-one TURN-IT group or No-Intervention Control group. This pilot intervention study will determine the number of subjects needed for a future clinical trial and will determine the sensitivity to change with rehabilitation our daily-life turning quality measures (such as, mean and variability of number of steps to turn, turn amplitude, turn velocity). The investigators predict that the TURN-IT program will improve turning in daily life enough to justify a larger clinical trial.

Conditions

  • Parkinson Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

TURN-IT exercise program

Based on the exercise motor learning principles, participants spend 10-15 minutes at each Exercise Station that focuses on particular constraints of turning ability. The stations will focus on important underlying aspects of turning, such as weight-shifting and increasing axial rotation during functional turning tasks. Each station will be progressed across levels to make more challenging (such as adding a dual task). Initially participants will be supported in an overhead body-weight support system (ZeroG) to allow them to practice challenging exercises without the risk of falling.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Oregon Health and Science University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Fay Horak, PhD, PT · Oregon Health and Science University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-09-13
Primary Completion
2025-06-30
Completion
2026-06-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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