NCT03538405

Short-term Effect of Positioning Cushions and Harmonic Techniques on Paratonia in Persons With Dementia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Ghent · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study investigated the short-term effect of both harmonic techniques and supporting cushions on muscle tone, range of motion, pain and daily care activities in 22 patients with moderate to severe paratonia. The study consisted of two parts, each part was conducted during one week. In the first part of the study the short-term effect of supporting cushions was examined; in the second part of the study the additional short-term effect of harmonic techniques was investigated.

Conditions

• Dementia
• Paratonia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Supporting cushions	Cushions were placed in a way that the head and four limbs were well supported, without leaving empty space between body and cushions or mattress.
OTHER	Harmonic techniques	Harmonic techniques (HT) is a group of manual techniques described by Lederman (2000).The goal of this techniques in this study was to reduce the muscle tone and additionally/subsequently increase the ROM.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-04-24
• Primary completion: 2017-12-21
• Completion: 2017-12-21
• First posted: 2018-05-29
• Last updated: 2023-05-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium