NCT01391741

The Effect of High-Volume Walking With Visual Cues (VC) in Parkinson´s Disease (PD)

The Effect of High-Volume Walking With Visual Cues on Gait in People With Parkinson´s Disease. A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 26 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Iceland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 79 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

People with disease (PD) tend to walk with short steps, decreased velocity, and increased stride time variability. Short steps and increased variability are related to greater fall risk. In addition, concurrent performance of a cognitive task (dual-task (DT)) has marked effects on gait in people with PD which is considered to reflect an impaired automaticity of gait. Objective: To investigate short and long term effects of high-volume walking with visual spatial cues (VSC) on gait variables, automaticity, and functional mobility, in people with Parkinson´s Disease (PD), compared with walking without VSC.

Conditions

• Parkinson´s Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Visual Cues	Walking with visual cues for 30 minutes, 4 times a week for 4 weeks
OTHER	Walking without visual cues	Walking without visual cues, but verbal encouragement twice a week to take longer steps, for 30 minutes, 4

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-04-01
• Primary completion: 2008-09-01
• Completion: 2008-09-01
• First posted: 2011-07-12
• Last updated: 2011-07-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Iceland