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Effect of Haptic Cueing on Long-Range Autocorrelations in Parkinson's Disease Gait Variability

NCT05790759 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2023-03-30

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Summary

Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients suffer from gait impairments responsible for falls and bad quality of life: reduced speed and stride length, randomness in the temporal organization of stride duration variability (reduced Long-Range Autocorrelations (LRA)). For years, auditory cueing has been used to modulate PD gait and its effect on LRA is known. Less is known regarding the effects of haptic cueing on PD gait and especially on LRA. This pilot study will compare the spatio-temporal gait parameters and LRA of PD patients tested under three conditions: walking without cueing, walking with auditory cueing and walking with haptic cueing by means of rhythmic vibrations on the patients' wrists.

Conditions

  • Parkinson Disease
  • Gait, Unsteady

Interventions

OTHER

No cueing versus Haptic cueing versus Auditory cueing during parkinson's disease gait

Patients walked in three conditions in a randomized order. During control condition, patients walked without cueing on a rectangular track of 63.2 meters at their comfortable gait speed. During Auditory Cueing Condition (ACC) patients walked on the same track using auditory cueing by the mean of a smartphone app called Soundbrenner thath deliverered rhythmic auditory stimulations through earphones paced 10% faster than each patient's preferred step frequence. During Haptic Cueing Condition (HCC) patients walked on the same track using haptic cueing by the mean of a vibratory device called Soundbrenner Pulse and attached to each patient's wrist located on their most affected side. The Soundbrenner app on the smartphone was connected to the Soundbrenner Pulse by Bluetooth to deliver rhythmic vibratory stimulations also paced 10% faster than each patient's preferred step frequence, the same frequence as during ACC.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thierry Lejeune, PhD · Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-01-01
Primary Completion
2020-03-15
Completion
2020-03-15

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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