Actively Recruiting
Balance Rehabilitation With Modified Visual Input in Patients With Neuropathy
Led by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · Updated on 2024-07-03
40
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
334 weeks
Total Duration
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What this Trial Is About
This research focuses on the effects of rehabilitation on balance, in patients with acquired chronic demyelinating neuropathy. Rehabilitation will be performed with or without vision. It is planned to include 40 subjects consulting for walking instability related to sensitivity disorders. This multicenter study will take place in Paris's area. Each participant will benefit from 20 rehabilitation sessions with a Physical Therapist and 3 assessments. Thanks to randomization, patient will be allocated in one of the 2 following groups: * Control group, Patients will benefit from balance rehabilitation with open eyes. * Experimental group, they will perform the same exercises while keeping their eyes closed or their vision will be obstructed by a mask or disturbed by moving luminous dots projected on the environment in darkness.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Balance Rehabilitation With Modified Visual Input in Patients With Neuropathy
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Patients with chronic demyelinating acquired neuropathy
- Age 18 years or older
- Able to walk 20 meters indoors without human assistance, with or without technical aid
- Complaints of discomfort or walking instability related to sensitivity disorders
- Clinically stable for at least 2 months, regardless of treatment
- Provided informed consent
You will not qualify if you...
- Unable to walk 20 meters indoors without both technical and human assistance
- Currently hospitalized
- Participating in another intervention study
- Undergoing ongoing balance rehabilitation in another center during this program
- Receiving acute treatment for polyneuropathy started or stopped less than 2 months ago
- Scheduled surgery during study participation preventing completion of rehabilitation and assessments
- Recent surgery or lower limb prosthesis less than 1 year old
- Skin wounds on the foot preventing rehabilitation
- Balance disorders from vestibular or central neurological causes
- Visual disability
- Hearing impairment preventing understanding instructions
- Unable to speak or understand French
- Cognitive or language impairments preventing protocol understanding
- Resident outside Paris Region (Ile de France)
- Known pregnancy
- Not affiliated with social security, under guardianship, or prisoner
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Service de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation (MPR)
Paris, France, 75010
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
B
Bénédicte PANIGOT GUERIN, PT
CONTACT
A
Alain YELNIK, MD, PhD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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