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Home-based Gait and Balance Training in Patients With Movement Disorders
Led by Forschungszentrum Juelich · Updated on 2025-08-13
80
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
151 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
F
Forschungszentrum Juelich
Lead Sponsor
H
Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The research project is an experimental study with three study visits at the study site at the University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD) / Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and a three-week training phase in a parallel design. Patients with movement disorders (ataxia or Parkinson\'s disease) can take part. The training phase includes individually adapted, targeted, video-based coordination and balance training, which should lead to an improvement in gait and balance. Two different training protocols are carried out in parallel for three weeks each: One with 20 minutes of training per day, four days per week; and one with a training duration of 40 minutes per day, only two days per week. All patients initially take part in a one-week familiarization phase without training and are then randomly assigned to one of the two training protocols or the control group without additional training. In both training phases, the total amount of weekly training time is the same, but the frequency and duration of training sessions per week differs. The patients who were assigned to the control group without additional training can complete the training after their third study visit.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Home-based Gait and Balance Training in Patients With Movement Disorders
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Clinical diagnosis of cerebellar ataxia or idiopathic Parkinson's syndrome
- Ability to walk a distance of four meters unhindered at home
You will not qualify if you...
- Other diseases affecting motor skills
- Severe primary psychiatric illnesses
- Current drug or alcohol addiction
- Consumptive diseases
- Poor general condition
- Increased risk of falling (fall frequency of at least once per week or as assessed by physician)
- Incapacitated patients in official or court custody or unable to give consent
- Parkinson's patients unable to perform measurements during medication on-phase
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Institut für Klinische Neurowissenschaften und Medizinische Psychologie
Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 40225
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Research Team
M
Martina Minnerop, PD Dr. med.
CONTACT
C
Clara Rentz, M. Sc.
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
3
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