NCT00890669

Treadmill Training and Quality of Life in Parkinson's Disease

Treadmill Walking Training With Additional Body Load Improves Quality of Life in Subjects With Parkinson's Disease

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 9 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 51 Years – 81 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Parkinson's disease (PD) causes motor and non-motor impairments that affect the quality of life of the subjects. The purpose was to assess the effects of treadmill walking training with additional body load on the quality of life and motor symptoms of the subjects with PD. Methods: Nine subjects with PD, Hoehn and Yahr stages 2 through 3, not demented and with capability to ambulate independently voluntarily participate in this study. The training program was divided into three phases (A1-B-A2): treadmill training with additional body load (A1), control condition (conventional physical therapy group) (B) and treadmill training with load again (A2). Each phase lasted six weeks. The quality of life and motor symptoms were assessed by PDQ-39 and UPDRS, respectively. Both evaluations and training were performed during on-phase of the medication cycle.

Conditions

• Parkinson's Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Treadmill walking training with additional body load	The training program was divided into three phases (A1-B-A2): * treadmill training with additional body load (A1), * control condition (conventional physical therapy group) (B). and * treadmill training with additional body load again (A2). Each phase lasted six weeks, totaling 18 weeks. Both evaluations and training were performed during on-phase of the medication cycle.

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-08-01
• Completion: 2008-12-01
• First posted: 2009-04-30
• Last updated: 2009-05-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil