NCT06801704

Top Set and Parkinson's Disease

The Effects of Top Set Training in Combination With Power Training in Subjects With Parkinson's Disease

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Miami · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This project will focus on improving power in adults with Parkinson's disease, since power is related to performance of daily activities and memory and decision making. The study will compare traditional power training, where the participant does all exercises as fast as possible to top set resistance training, where the participant does power training, but it is preceded by warm-up sets that progress in weight until the participant reaches 90% of the person's maximum strength. If the top set method is better than traditional power training, it could be more beneficial than existing methods in improving independence in adults with Parkinson's disease.

Conditions

• Parkinson Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Top Set Resistance Training	Participants will receive four warm-up sets at increasingly higher resistance, followed by three sets of eight repetitions per set on six resistance-training exercises. During training participants will be allowed 1-minute rests between sets. Participants will come in person for up to 12 weeks, twice per week, for approximately 45 minutes per day.
BEHAVIORAL	Power Resistance Training	Participants will receive a total of 24 in-person training sessions using three sets of eight repetitions per set on six power resistance-training exercises. During training participants will be allowed 1-minute rests between sets. Participants will come in person for up to 12 weeks, twice per week, for approximately 45 minutes per day.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-01-28
• Primary completion: 2025-06-30
• Completion: 2025-06-30
• First posted: 2025-01-30
• Last updated: 2025-08-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States