Active clinical trials for "Parkinson Disease"

Treatment strategies in Parkinson's disease (PD) can improve a patient's quality of life but cannot stop the progression of PD. The investigators are looking for different alternatives that modify the natural course of the disease and recent research has demonstrated the neuroprotective properties of erythropoietin. In Cuba, the Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) is a cutting edge scientific center where the recombinant form (EPOrh) and recombinant human erythropoietin with low sialic acid (NeuroEPO) are produced.

The aim of this study is to improve knowledge about mechanical gait assistance combined with virtual reality efficiency in gait recovery for Parkinson´s patients. It is hypothesised that 12 sessions of 30 minutes each, over a 4 weeks period, of antigravity treadmill rehabilitation combined with virtual reality treatment is effective for increase gait autonomy in patients with Parkinson's disease.

This study will be conducted in subjects with established Parkinson's disease in 2 parts. Part A will examine the tolerability, safety, and pharmacokinetics of AZ-009 dose escalation ; and Part B will assess the tolerability, safety, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of AZ-009 compared with placebo in a crossover design

Demonstrate safety and efficacy of TAPS delivered by a Cala device as a treatment for action tremor in subjects with Parkinson's disease hand tremor

This study was planned to examine the effects of Pilates training in Parkinson's Patients. The study included 34 Parkinson's patients between Hoehn & Yahr Stage 1-2.5. Pilates training was applied to the Pilates group for 8 weeks, 3 days per week. To the control group; Breathing exercises, active range of motion exercises and relaxation exercises were given as a home program 3 days per week for 8 weeks. It was concluded that Pilates training performed to Parkinson's patients 3 times a week for 8 weeks was effective on "core" stability, thickness of "core" muscles, functional exercise capacity, motor functions, freezing, fatigue and QOL.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder and affects approximately 1 million people in the United States with total annual costs approaching 11 billion dollars. The most common symptoms of PD are tremor, stiffness, slowness, and trouble with balance/walking, which lead to severe impairments in performing activities of daily living. Current medical and surgical treatments for PD are either only mildly effective, expensive, or associated with a variety of side-effects. Therefore, the development of practical and effective add-ons to current therapeutic treatment approaches would have many benefits. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique that can affect brain activity and can help make long-term brain changes to improve functions like walking and balance. While a few initial research studies and review articles involving tDCS have concluded that tDCS may improve PD walking and balance, many results are not meaningful in real life and several crucial issues still prevent tDCS from being a useful add-on intervention in PD. These include the selection of stimulation sites (brain regions stimulated) and tDCS electrode placement. Most studies have targeted the motor cortex (brain region that controls intentional movement), but there is evidence that the cerebellum - which helps control gait and balance, is connected to several other brain areas, and is easily stimulated with tDCS - may be a likely location to further optimize walking and balance in PD. There is also evidence that certain electrodes placements may be better than others. Thus, the purpose of this study is to determine the effects of cerebellar tDCS stimulation using two different placement strategies on walking and balance in PD. Additionally, although many tDCS devices are capable of a range of stimulation intensities (for example, 0 mA - 5 mA), the intensities currently used in most tDCS research are less than 2 mA, which is sufficient to produce measurable improvements; but, these improvements may be expanded at higher intensities. In the beginning, when the safety of tDCS was still being established for human subjects, careful and moderate stimulation approaches were warranted. However, recent work using stimulation at higher intensities (for example, up to 4 mA) have been performed in different people and were found to have no additional negative side-effects. Now that the safety of tDCS at higher intensities is better established, studies exploring the differences in performance between moderate (i.e., 2 mA) and higher (i.e., 4 mA) intensities are necessary to determine if increasing the intensity increases the effectiveness of the desired outcome. Prospective participants will include 10 people with mild-moderate PD that will be recruited to complete five randomly-ordered stimulation sessions, separated by at least 5 days each. Each session will involve one visit to the Integrative Neurophysiology Laboratory (INPL) and will last for approximately one hour. Data collection is expected to take 4-6 months. Each session will include walking and balance testing performed while wearing the tDCS device. Total tDCS stimulation time for each session will be 25 minutes.

Despite optimal treatment with medication, people with Parkinson's disease (PD) still experience symptoms and secondary complications. Physiotherapy has long been recognized as one of the leading treatments in PD for slowing progression of the disease and retaining a higher quality of life for longer. Physiotherapy includes, among other things, training motor functions e.g., gait, balance and strength training and encourages physical activity. Exercise is an important part of healthy living for everyone, but for people with PD, exercise is medicine. Studies even suggest that exercise may slow down disease progression. Another way of improving PD motor symptoms, such as festination and freezing of gait (FOG), in a more direct way is by sensory cueing. Cueing is defined as the application of spatial or temporal external stimuli to help initiate, or facilitate gait, and can be presented as acoustic, visual, or tactile stimuli. It has been well known for many years that sensory cueing is effective and there has been extensive research on the topic. Cue X is a new product developed by Strolll Limited (www.strolll.co) that applies the existing proven principles of exercise and sensory cueing for PD onto augmented-reality (AR) headsets implemented in two modules: movement training and movement assistance. The movement training module is designed to train gait and balance in a gamified manner to maximize training compliance. With this clinical feasibility study, the investigators want to examine the feasibility and potential efficacy of the Cue X movement training module to train gait and balance of people with PD in their home environment.

Taking into account the process of functional and cognitive evolution that patients with Parkinson's disease experience throughout the pathology, the objective of this study is to evaluate the acute effects of aerobic exercise in forced cycling performed with lower limbs and freecycling of upper limbs combined with cognitive stimuli on attention, exploration skills, and short-term motor skills in people with Parkinson's disease.

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare home based rehalitation program with real time biofeeback versus conventional physiotherapy on the gait velocity in Parkinson disease. The main question[s] it aims to answer are: • How do the interventions afftect the gait velocity of the participants at week 12 ? Participants will be randomized to either follow prescribtional physiotherapy or FeetMe rehabilitation programs during the first 12 weeks. At the end of 12 weeks, participants will choose in which arm they want to pursue for 12 aditionnal weeks.

Freezing of gait, (FOG) is an unpredictable, abrupt, short phenomenon that severely affects Parkinson's disease (PD) patients' gait and quality of life. The common measure tools are self-questioners that present the subjective feelings and the FOG provoking tests that used in clinic for evoking FOG and getting the estimated duration and the phenotype of the expressed phenomenon. The objective of this study is to investigate the FOG phenomenon using video cameras at patients' home with combination of wearable-axivity sensors and smart soles with a goal of objective assessment and quantification of freezing of gait severity in unsupervised daily-living environment of the PD patients.