NCT02718560

Handwriting Rehabilitation in Parkinson Disease

Effectiveness of Intensive Handwriting Rehabilitation in Subjects With Parkinson's Disease

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 180 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ospedale Generale Di Zona Moriggia-Pelascini · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of an intensive handwriting treatment in Parkinson's Disease.

Detailed description

The investigators aimed to understand whether an intensive handwriting treatment with cognitive engagement is more effective than a treatment exploiting only the passive wrist joint mobilization in Parkinson's Disease.

Conditions

• Parkinson Disease
• Neurorehabilitation
• Handwriting

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Writing	Writing exercise with or without cues for 1 hour per day for 4 days at week for 4 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-09-01
• Primary completion: 2017-06-01
• Completion: 2017-09-01
• First posted: 2016-03-24
• Last updated: 2017-04-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy