Can Dance Therapy Improve Motor Learning in Parkinson's Disease (PD)?

Parkinson Disease Clinical Trial

Official title:

Can Dance Therapy Improve Motor Learning in Parkinson's Disease?

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03549793
• Other study ID #: dance therapy in PD
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: May 2018
• Source: Ospedale Generale Di Zona Moriggia-Pelascini
• Contact: Paola Ortelli, PsyD
• Phone: 3332974872
• Email: ortellipaola73[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

In order to find the most effective rehabilitative therapies for Parkinsonian patients, the present study is aimed to evaluate whether, in a multidisciplinary intensive rehabilitation treatment, the dance therapy, applied to the motor learning, promote additional benefits.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: June 1, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Stage 2.5-3 according to the Hoehn and Yahr scale (H&Y);

• Stable pharmacological treatment for the last 6 weeks before the enrolment and during the hospitalization;

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any focal brain lesion detected in brain imaging studies (CT or MRI) performed in the previous 12 months;

• Drug-induced dyskinesias;

• Disturbing resting and/or action tremor, corresponding to scores 2-4 in the specific items of UPDRS III;

• Behavioral disturbances (evaluated with Neuropsychiatric Inventory);

• Visual and auditory dysfunctions according to the general clinical evaluation and medical history;

• cognitive decline (MMSE correct score < 24)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Parkinson Disease

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Dance Therapy
the intervention is aimed to ameliorate, through dancing, crucial motor symptoms in PD patients, as walking, balance, postural changes and arm swing
• exercises without dance
the intervention consists of exercises aimed at training the walking, the balance, the postural changes and the arm swing

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	Department of Parkinson's Disease and Brain Injury Rehabilitation, of the 'Moriggia-Pelascini' Hospital	Gravedona Ed Uniti	Como

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Ospedale Generale Di Zona Moriggia-Pelascini

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	delayed recall of items	number of specific items correctly performed in recall phase	4 weeks
Primary	Timed Up and Go Test (TUG)	To determine fall risk and measure the progress of balance, sit to stand, and walking.	4 weeks
Secondary	6 Minutes Walking Test (6MWT)	The 6MWT measures the distance an individual is able to walk over a total of six minutes on a hard, flat surface. The goal is for the individual to walk as far as possible in six minutes.	4 weeks
Secondary	Balance Berg Scale (BBS)	to objectively determine a patient's ability (or inability) to safely balance during a series of predetermined tasks.	4 weeks