NCT06984393

Tele-Rehabilitation Intervention in Community-Based Healthcare for Patients With Parkinson's Disease (DHEAL-COM-PD)

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Istituto Nazionale di Ricovero e Cura per Anziani · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aims to measure the improvement in functional capacity in a group of elderly people suffering from early-stage Parkinson's disease (Hoehn \& Yahr scale 1-3), following a telerehabilitation intervention integrated with BTS TELEREHAB technology.

Detailed description

The DHEAL-COM-PD project aims to evaluate the improvement in physical performance of Parkinson's disease patients following an integrated rehabilitation intervention with technology in telerehabilitation. In fact, the project involves the administration of a rehabilitation intervention in telerehabilitation integrated with BTS TELEREHAB technology, which is able to recognize the patient's movements and analyze them according to quantitative (repetitions) and qualitative (postural and balance)-indicators. The trial is a feasibility study, with single-blind randomized controlled trial type experimental design. Forty older adults with Parkinson's disease will be recruited for the study and randomized into two groups: the experimental group, that will perform tele-rehabilitation at home with a non-immersive virtual reality system, and the control group. Patients in the control group will be offered activities to perform at home, with the same frequency, in line with the usual care activities already proposed by the Rehabilitation Unit.

Conditions

• Parkinson Disease
• Older People

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	home tele-rehabilitation	Patients will receive a personalised home tele-rehabilitation exercise program consisting of 3 sessions per week for a duration of 12 weeks. The sessions will be organised as follows: one session will be conducted via tele-rehabilitation with the support of a physiotherapist in small groups of up to 5 patients; in the remaining two sessions, the patient will perform the exercises independently at home. BTS TELEREHAB is the platform that will allow the delivery of remote rehabilitation services. The patient is given the system to take home, where they will connect the small Brain PC, that is the computer unit of the BTS TELEREHAB solution, to their television. Before starting the rehabilitation program, the patient will receive training with the technology in the hospital, in the presence of the physiotherapist. During motor rehabilitation sessions, the patient wears a special inertial sensor, the G-Sensor device.
OTHER	Usual care	Participants will receive a booklet containing information and activities on well-being. They will be invited to do whatever they wish with the information booklet and the proposed exercises.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-09-02
• Primary completion: 2026-05-30
• Completion: 2026-05-30
• First posted: 2025-05-22
• Last updated: 2025-05-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy