NCT03201692

Improving Dynamic Balance and Gait Adaptability Using Treadmill Training

Improving Dynamic Balance and Gait Adaptability Using Treadmill Training With Visual Cues in Subjects With Neurological Disorders: Design of a Pilot Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Balance and gait problems in subjects with neurological disease lead to reduced mobility, loss of independence and frequent falls. Treadmill training is a widely used form of treatment and it has been used in subjects with neurological disease to ameliorate walking and balance deficits. The Virtual Reality Treadmill as a therapeutic tool has been recently introduced to practice gait adaptability elicited by aligning foot placement relative to the projected visual context. Forty-eight subjects with neurological disease will receive treadmill training treatment randomly divided in Traditional Treadmill training and Virtual Reality Treadmill training. The aim of this randomized controlled study is to assess whether Treadmill training with Virtual Reality is better than Traditional Treadmill training in improving dynamic balance and cognitive aspects in subjects with neurological diseases.

Conditions

• Multiple Sclerosis
• Stroke
• Parkinson Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Virtual Reality Treadmill Training	Subjects in the experimental group will receive 40 minutes comprising exercises focused on improving dynamic balance following auditory and visual cues.
DEVICE	Treadmill training	Subjects in the active comparator group will receive 40 minutes walking training aimed to improve velocity and endurance.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-07-01
• Primary completion: 2019-04-10
• Completion: 2019-04-10
• First posted: 2017-06-28
• Last updated: 2017-07-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy