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Evaluation of the effectiveness of aquatic therapy for the treatment of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease patients undergoing a multidisciplinary and intensive rehabilitation treatment.


Clinical Trial Description

Freezing of gait (FoG) is an often dramatic, disabling episodic gait pattern that is common in Parkinson's disease (PD). FoG highly impairs mobility, causes falls, and reduces quality of life. Given the limited effectiveness of both the dopaminergic therapy and the deep brain stimulation on this symptom, it represents a challenge in the field of rehabilitation. In the last years, some studies described the effectiveness of aquatic therapy on balance dysfunction in patients with PD, correlating it to the safe conditions offered by the aquatic environment and to the physical properties of water. Nevertheless, the issues concerning the feasibility and the effectiveness of aquatic therapy for the treatment of FoG have never been addressed before. The aquatic environment may act on the sensorial peripheral receptors, thus widely stimulating the proprioceptive system. PD patients show an altered processing of the proprioceptive information that could potentially underline FoG. The investigators aim at investigating the effects of aquatic therapy for the treatment of FoG in PD patients undergoing a Multidisciplinary Intensive Rehabilitation Treatment (MIRT), whose effectiveness on several motor and functional parameters has been already demonstrated. ;


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NCT number NCT03015714
Study type Interventional
Source Ospedale Generale Di Zona Moriggia-Pelascini
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date January 2017
Completion date June 2017

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