Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01987557
Amplitude and Rate of Intrinsic Feedback During Treadmill Training for Parkinson's Disease
The Therapeutic Contributions of Somatosensory Feedback During Exercise in Parkinson's Disease; A Randomized, Controlled Trial.
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 48 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Wilfrid Laurier University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 40 Years – 79 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Treadmill training has been shown to be beneficial for reducing motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). The mechanisms for the therapeutic effects of treadmill training remain unknown. However, specific types of intrinsic feedback generated from muscle spindles (detect changes in length of muscle) and golgi tendon organs (detect muscle force) seem to be an important factor for achieving the reductions in motor scores. This study will compare a treadmill program that generates a high rate of intrinsic feedback to a treadmill program focused on generating a high magnitude of intrinsic feedback.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | rate group | walking with a high cadence (steps per minute) |
| BEHAVIORAL | magnitude treadmill group | |
| BEHAVIORAL | regular treadmill walking |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2013-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2014-08-01
- Completion
- 2014-08-01
- First posted
- 2013-11-19
- Last updated
- 2015-06-17
- Results posted
- 2015-06-17
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01987557. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.