NCT03570268

Preventing Falls and Participation Restrictions in Neurological Diseases

Educational and Exercise Intervention to Prevent Falls and Participation Restrictions in Subjects With Neurological Diseases

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A randomized open clinical trial to assess the added value of a comprehensive rehabilitation program on fall prevention and improve participation and activities of daily living. Baseline assessment, 6-month experimental intervention (experimental group) vs. usual rehabilitation programs and assessment at end of treatment and six months after treatment will be performed.

Detailed description

90 patients will be randomly patients will be stratified by disease type and randomized separately. The trial will be organized in Baseline assessment (clinical characteristics; fall predictors, chosen among the variables found to predict falls in the observational study), experimental intervention (experimental group) vs. usual rehabilitation programs (control group) and assessment at end of treatment and six months after treatment. The aim of the treatment will be the prevention of falls.

Conditions

• Multiple Sclerosis
• Parkinson Disease
• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Experimental Group: Education	Participants in the experimental intervention group received an educational program and tailored home exercises.
OTHER	Control Group: Usual care	Participants allocated to the control group received stretching exercises.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-30
• Completion: 2017-01-15
• First posted: 2018-06-26
• Last updated: 2018-06-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy