NCT05243394

Effects of a Treadmill Gait Training Protocol in a Gamified Virtual Reality Environment With tDCS in Parkinson's Disease

Evaluating the Effects of a Treadmill Gait Training Protocol in a Gamified Virtual Reality Environment With tDCS in Parkinson's Disease: Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Universitat de Lleida · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aims to compare the effects of treadmill gait training in a gamified virtual reality environment with tDCS versus treadmill gait training in a gamified virtual reality environment versus treadmill training in people with Parkinson's Disease.

Detailed description

Treadmill gait training has been stablished as a solid gait rehabilitation option for people with Parkinson's Disease. However, gait training by itself fails to address the cognitive aspect needed for safe walking, which could be affected by situations in which concurrent tasks must be managed simultaneously to gait. It also lacks motivational aspects key to keep people with Parkinson's Disease adhered to treatment. Virtual reality and gamification are posed as useful tools to address both these issues, turning training into a more engaging activity and allowing complicated gait situations to be trained in a safe environment. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) could be combined with these mentioned treatment options, which could reinforce the learning of motor and cognitive skills during training. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of the inclusion of a gamified virtual reality environment to a treadmill gait training program with tDCS in PD compared to the same training protocol with virtual reality and without it

Conditions

• Parkinson Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Gamified virtual reality treadmill gait training with tDCS	Progressive treadmill gait training in a gamified virtual reality environment with tDCS
OTHER	Gamified virtual reality treadmill gait training	Progressive treadmill gait training in a gamified virtual reality environment
OTHER	Treadmill gait training	Progressive treadmill gait training

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-01-01
• Primary completion: 2024-03-01
• Completion: 2024-09-01
• First posted: 2022-02-17
• Last updated: 2022-11-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain