Clinical trial NCT04303338: Masotherapy With Neural Tension in Patients With Parkinson's Disease
Official title: Effectiveness of Adding Neural Tension to Masotherapy in Patients With Parkinson's Disease
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Parkinson Disease
Keywords: Parkinson disease
Essential tremor
Neuromuscular Therapy
Massage
Manual Therapy
Neurodynamic
Lead sponsor: University of Jaén
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of Alcala
First posted: 2020-03-11
Enrollment: 52
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 50
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The objective of this study is to assess if the masotherapy with neural tension is more effective than non-neural tension to improve and reduce tremor in patients with Parkinson's disease. The project will be carried out in clinics, where both data collection, assessments and scales will be carried out, as well as the plan and intervention in which the neural tension massage therapy of the radial nerve will be applied to the first intervention group; and massage therapy without neural tension in the second group.

Detailed description: In this study the investigators are going to compare the effectiveness of two treatments (masotherapy with neural tension and masotherapy with non-neural tension) in patients with Parkinson disease based on the improved of pain, tremor, functional and life quality.

The investigators are going to divide the number of volunteers in two groups. The first group is going to be treated during 8 weeks with conventional (non-neural tension) masotherapy in the upper limb, the other group is going to be treated with radial neural tension masotherapy during 8 weeks also. To apply the neural tension, the investigators position the patient's upper limb lowering the scapula, elbow extended, internal rotation glenohumeral, forearm pronation, bend and cubital deviation of the wrist, fingers bended and thumb adduction, and finally glenohumeral abduction.

To compare the results between the different groups, the investigators are going to value the patients 4 times, the first one before the beginning of the treatment, the second one and the end of the treatment, the third one after one month completing the treatment, and the last one after three months completing the treatment.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* People diagnosed with Parkinson disease in mild or moderate degree.
* Age between 50-80 years old.
* People who can answer the questionnaires without held.
* People who commit to attend the treatment assigned in the study.
* People with tremor that limit his/her functionality or cause discomfort.
* People who is not treated the upper limb

Exclusion Criteria:

* People with mental disease.
* People who do not sign the informed consent.
* People who present comorbidities that can affect the final result of the study.
* People whose medication is modified through the study.
* People who take medication whose secundary effect is the tremor appearance.
* People who is participating in other research studies.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Changes in the tremor
timeFrame: Baseline and 1 month after intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Changes in the health-related quality of life: Parkinson Disease Quality of Questionnaire (PDQ-39)
timeFrame: Baseline 8 weeks and 1 month after intervention
measure: Changes in the strength
timeFrame: Baseline 8 weeks and 1 month after intervention
measure: Changes in the manual dexterity
timeFrame: Baseline 8 weeks and 1 month after intervention
measure: Changes in the pain: Visual Analog Scale (VAS)
timeFrame: Baseline 8 weeks and 1 month after intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Madrid
country: Spain
facility: Physiotherapy clinic
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Jaen
name: Alexander Achalandabaso, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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