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HIFT in People With Parkinson's Disease

NCT05482776 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 14

Last updated 2025-08-28

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Summary

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive and chronic neurodegenerative disease, which presents signs and symptoms both motor (impaired gait, posture, balance, etc.) and cognitive (memory loss, dementia, etc.), all of which cause disability and assuming a high economic cost. Currently, there are already certain authors who have shown how a high-intensity interval training (HIIT) protocol produces improvements in cognitive and physical performance in healthy adults and in people with multiple sclerosis. However, another modality has been created, such as high-intensity functional training (HIFT), which can benefit different populations, both healthy and pathological, due to the multimodal nature of the exercises. These are prescribed knowing the target group and involve the whole body using universal motor recruitment patterns in multiple planes of movement such as squats. The main hypothesis of the study is that high-intensity functional training (HIFT), at a motor and cognitive level, provides a greater benefit than conventional programs of strength, balance and cognition, on the functionality and cognitive capacity of people with Parkinson's disease.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

High intensity functional training

HIFT is an exercise modality that emphasizes functional movements through exercises that involve a large amount of muscle mass and that can be adapted to the level of physical condition of each subject. Although it has similarities and is compared to HIIT, they are different. In this discipline, functional exercises with an external load such as squats, pull-ups, or functional exercises with our own weight, are mixed with other aerobics such as running, rowing or cycling. This mix results in a high-intensity training that improves parameters of physical condition in general and performance.

OTHER

classic training group

This intervention consists of carrying out their conventional weekly physiotherapy training sessions where strength, coordination and balance are trained.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Valencia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • MARTA AGUILAR RODRÍGUEZ, PhD. · Physiotherapy Department. University of Valencia. Spain

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-04-15
Primary Completion
2022-11-03
Completion
2022-12-05

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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