NCT01968473

Comfort and Tolerance of Surface Neuro Muscular Electrical Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease.

An Evaluation of Comfort and Tolerance of Surface Neuro Muscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES), When Applied to Parkinson's Disease Patients for Both Sensory and Motor Activation.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate issues relating to comfort and tolerance to surface neuro muscular electrical stimulation in a parkinson disease population.

Detailed description

The comfort and tolerance of Parkinson Disease (PD) patients to surface neuro muscular electrical stimulation (NMES) will be investigated. Six muscle sites will be tested sensory, motor and pain thresholds recorded. Furthermore pain tolerance will be recorded as the level at which the stimulus is unbearable.

Conditions

• Parkinson's Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	NMES Device comfort	NMES device, establishing Sensory, Motor and Pain thresholds and Pain tolerance.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-10-01
• Completion: 2013-10-01
• First posted: 2013-10-24
• Last updated: 2013-10-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Ireland