Clinical trial NCT05971784: The Effect of Upper Extremity Telerehabilitation on Balance and Gait
Official title: The Effect of Upper Extremity Telerehabilitation on Balance and Gait in Parkinson's Patients
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Parkinson Disease
Keywords: Parkinson disease
Task oriented training
Balance
Gait
Lead sponsor: Gazi University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Cumhuriyet University
First posted: 2023-08-02
Enrollment: 15
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 40
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Two groups as exercise group and control group
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a disease that affects the upper extremity functional skills with clinical findings such as bradykinesia, rigidity, and hypokinesia and causes limitations in the daily living activities of the patients. The influence of fine dexterity, reaching, and grasping movements greatly affects the daily living activities of the patients. Medical treatment and surgical approaches are frequently used among the treatment options for PD today. Physiotherapy and rehabilitation approaches for progressive functional loss in PD, together with optimal medical and surgical treatment, form the basis of PD treatment. Recently, it has been stated that intensive and task-specific rehabilitation interventions in the field of physiotherapy and rehabilitation will be more effective than traditional rehabilitation approaches. On the other hand, telerehabilitation approaches, the use of which has increased rapidly due to technological developments in recent times, enables the delivery of rehabilitation services to patients in distant places by using communication technologies. For this purpose, it is highly valuable to implement a task-oriented training (TOT) program based on motor learning-based principles, which consists of intense exercise content, through telerehabilitation. Although there are very few studies investigating the effectiveness of telerehabilitation-based TOT in PD, these studies have shown that upper extremity motor performance, activities of daily living, and quality of life are improved. On the other hand, no study has been found showing the effect of upper extremity TOT applied through telerehabilitation on balance and walking. Therefore, there is a need to investigate the effectiveness of telerehabilitation-based TOT exercises on balance and walking.

Detailed description: This study is a randomized controlled study. The patients will be randomly divided into two groups exercise and control. Balance and walking exercises consisting of 3 days a week for 6 weeks will be given to both groups as a home program. In addition, the exercise group will receive Task-oriented Training (TOT) based telerehabilitation via video conferencing 3 days a week for 6 weeks. TOT will be formed from daily life activities such as reaching out, grasping, writing, and manual skills, which are frequently used in daily life. As the outcome measures, disease severity, and disability, balance, and gait will be evaluated.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 40- 80 years of age
* Having diagnosed with "Parkinson's Disease" by a specialist physician
* Having between 1-3 stages according to the Hoehn and Yahr Scale
* Mini-Mental Test score more than or equal 24

Exclusion Criteria:

- Any orthopedic, vision, hearing, cardiovascular, or perception problems that may affect the research results

Primary outcomes:
measure: Static Balance- Baseline
timeFrame: Assessment will be conducted before the intervention
measure: Static Balance- Post intervention
timeFrame: Assessment will be conducted immediately after the intervention
measure: Gait- Baseline
timeFrame: Assessment will be conducted before the intervention
measure: Gait- Post intervention
timeFrame: Assessment will be conducted immediately after the intervention
measure: Balance- Baseline
timeFrame: Assessment will be conducted before the intervention
measure: Balance- Post intervention
timeFrame: Assessment will be conducted immediately after the intervention
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Sivas
country: Turkey
facility: Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
Study officials:
References:
citation: Eldemir S, Guclu-Gunduz A, Eldemir K, Saygili F, Yilmaz R, Akbostanci MC. The effect of task-oriented circuit training-based telerehabilitation on upper extremity motor functions in patients with Parkinson's disease: A randomized controlled trial. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2023 Apr;109:105334. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2023.105334. Epub 2023 Feb 28.