Computer-Based Balance Training for People With Parkinson's Disease

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Parkinson's Disease

In brief

This study will be carried out to determine the effectiveness of in-home computer games played by a person with Parkinson's disease for 50 minutes 3 times a week on measures of standing and walking balance.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01162226

Run by

University of California, San Francisco

People needed

62

Starts

2010-09-01

Expected to finish

2011-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-04-19

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• presence of bradykinesia along with at least one of the following: muscular rigidity, 4-6 Hz rest tremor, and postural instability (Gelb, Oliver, \& Gilman, 1999; Hughes, Ben-Shlomo, Daniel, \& Lees, 1992).
• Hoehn \& Yahr disease Stage 1 (unilateral disease) to 3 (mild to moderate bilateral disease, physically independent) (Fahn and Elton, 1987).

You may not qualify if…

• history of strokes, repeated head injury, encephalitis, oculogyric crises, neuroleptic treatment, MPTP exposure, more than one affected relative, sustained remission, strictly unilateral features after 3 years, supranuclear gaze palsy, early severe autonomic involvement or dementia, Babinski sign, tumor, or a negative response to L-DOPA (Hughes et al., 1992).
• other neurologic, orthopedic or cardiac problems, cognitive impairment as evidenced by 5 or more errors on the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) (Folstein, Folstein, \& McHugh, 1975)
• visual or hearing impairments serious enough to interfere with their ability to interact with the computer-based training program.

Where it is running

• University of California, San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States

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