NCT05239026

Treadmill Training in People With Parkinson's Disease

Treadmill Training With Concurrently Controlled Speed and Cadence in People With Parkinson's Disease

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: Georgia State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 89 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study will explore if coupling speed and cadence during treadmill training elicit more benefits than controlling speed alone in individuals with Parkinson's disease.

Detailed description

Impaired gait is prevalent and raises the fall risk in people with Parkinson's Disease (PwPD). Gait speed, step length, and cadence are three interrelated components of human gait, as speed is determined by step length and cadence. Auditory cues, such as metronomes, have been shown to aid training for PwPD. The purpose of this study is to examine if controlling cadence and speed improves overground gait parameters in PwPD better than only controlling speed. Two groups of PwPD will participate. Both groups will attend a single treadmill training session. Both groups will complete overground walking trials as a pre-test measurement. One group will receive treadmill training in which cadence, via a metronome, and speed are controlled, while only speed is controlled for the other group. Both groups will complete the same overground walking trials as a post-test measurements. The specific aim of this study is to determine the effects of metronome cues and gait speed versus gait speed alone treadmill training on spatiotemporal gait parameters when walking overground in PwPD.

Conditions

• Parkinson Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Advanced treadmill walking	Participants will walking on a treadmill for 6 5-minute Blocks. The cadence will be progressively reduced for the first 3 Blocks. Speed will progressively increase during Blocks 4-6 while cadence from Block 3 is maintained.
BEHAVIORAL	Traditional treadmill walking	Participants will walking on a treadmill for 6 5-minute Blocks. Participants will walk at self-selected cadence during Blocks 1-3. Speed will progressively increase during Blocks 4-6.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-03-21
• Primary completion: 2024-05-31
• Completion: 2024-07-09
• First posted: 2022-02-14
• Last updated: 2024-07-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States