NCT03687190

Could Tai-chi Help Maintain Balance of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Patients

Integrative Medicine and Tai-chi in Clinical Status of Spinocerebellar Ataxia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 21 (actual)
• Sponsor: Changhua Christian Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Spinocerebellar atrophy is the most common autosomal dominant inherited ataxia. There are over thirty subtypes, which characterize neurologic features differently. They all have obvious substantial cerebellar atrophies in image, and unstable gait、ataxia. In general a prevalence of about three cases per 100 000 people is assumed, but this may be an underestimate. Progressive neurologic degeneration, in about 10-20 years, will leads to disability or wheelchair-dependent. Accompanying with fatigue, downhill course of the disease often made patients depressive and hopeless. The recent review of researches concludes no effective therapy for the disease. The purpose of the investigator's study is to explore the Tai-chi exercise effect for spinocerebellar ataxia.

Conditions

• Spinocerebellar Ataxias
• Tai Chi

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Tai chi	participants were required to receive hospital-based Tai chi training at least once a month, and home-based Tai chi exercise at least three times a week over the next 9 months
DRUG	conventional medicine	participants without Tai chi training still received routine conventional medicine

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-05-13
• Primary completion: 2015-12-02
• Completion: 2015-12-02
• First posted: 2018-09-27
• Last updated: 2023-08-30
• Results posted: 2022-01-27