NCT04171076

Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation for Parkinson Disease

Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson Disease

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Spinal cord stimulation has been used to treat gait problems in Parkinson's disease, with positive results along some studies. The use of non-invasive stimulation can be an alternative to stimulate the spinal corn.

Detailed description

Spinal cord stimulation has been used to treat gait problems in Parkinson's disease, with positive results along some studies. The use of non-invasive stimulation can be an alternative to stimulate the spinal corn. In this pilot trial, the investigators recruit participants with Parkinson' disease and freezing of gait. The aim of the study is to explore the safety along the non-invasive magnetic thoracic spinal cord stimulation as well the effect on gait problems, especially freezing of gait, prospectively, in an open-label fashion.

Conditions

• Parkinson Disease
• Gait, Rigid

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation	Theta burst stimulation at thoracic level (T5) over 2 minutes

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-15
• Primary completion: 2019-11-15
• Completion: 2019-11-30
• First posted: 2019-11-20
• Last updated: 2019-11-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil