Effects of Mental Practice in Gait of Individuals With Parkinson Disease: Randomized Clinical Trial

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

20 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-12-31

Study Completion Date

2013-09-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of mental practice, associated with physical practice, on gait (cinematic parameters and mobility) in individuals with idiopathic Parkinson's disease. It is believed that familiarity with the normal gait pattern, associated with mental practice and physical practice can trigger significant changes in spatiotemporal and angular parameters that are not observed in the group not submitted to mental practice.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Parkinson Disease

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

FACTORIAL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Investigators

Study Groups

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Physical practice

Familiarization with gait cycle: Cards with pictures of an elderly person performing movements related to the adjustment of posture, gait initiation and gait phases were shown to the subjects. They should have organized them sequentially, showing that they learned gait phases.

Physical practice: is the execution of the motor action.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Physical practice

Intervention Type OTHER

The control group underwent familiarization of gait phases using cards with gait phases and physical gait training.

Familiarization with gait cycle: Cards with pictures of an elderly person performing movements related to the adjustment of posture, gait initiation and gait phases were shown to the subjects. They should have organized them sequentially, showing that they learned gait phases. Then, they were submitted to a physical gait training. They underwent a single training session during 1 hour and 30 minutes and were reassessed 10 minutes and 1 day after the end of the session, in respect of the kinematic gait and mobility.

Mental and physical practice

Familiarization with gait cycle: Cards with pictures of an elderly person performing movements related to the adjustment of posture, gait initiation and gait phases were shown to the subjects. They should have organized them sequentially, showing that they learned gait phases.

Mental practice: is defined as motor imagery training with the aim of improving the engine performance. Is the imagination of a motor action without its physical implementation.

Physical practice: is the execution of the motor action.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Mental and physical practice

Intervention Type OTHER

The experimental group underwent familiarization of gait phases using cards with gait phases, mental practice of gait and physical gait training.

Familiarization with gait cycle: Cards with pictures of an elderly person performing movements related to the adjustment of posture, gait initiation and gait phases were shown to the subjects. They should have organized them sequentially, showing that they learned gait phases.

Then, they were submitted to a mental training of gait. They imagined the gait steps per 400 repetitions. While imagining, they verbalized the gait phases.

Finally, they were submitted to a physical gait training. They executed 400 steps.

They underwent a single training session during 1 hour and 30 minutes and were reassessed 10 minutes and 1 day after the end of the session, in respect of the kinematic gait and mobility.

Interventions

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Physical practice

The control group underwent familiarization of gait phases using cards with gait phases and physical gait training.

Familiarization with gait cycle: Cards with pictures of an elderly person performing movements related to the adjustment of posture, gait initiation and gait phases were shown to the subjects. They should have organized them sequentially, showing that they learned gait phases. Then, they were submitted to a physical gait training. They underwent a single training session during 1 hour and 30 minutes and were reassessed 10 minutes and 1 day after the end of the session, in respect of the kinematic gait and mobility.

Intervention Type OTHER

Mental and physical practice

The experimental group underwent familiarization of gait phases using cards with gait phases, mental practice of gait and physical gait training.

Familiarization with gait cycle: Cards with pictures of an elderly person performing movements related to the adjustment of posture, gait initiation and gait phases were shown to the subjects. They should have organized them sequentially, showing that they learned gait phases.

Then, they were submitted to a mental training of gait. They imagined the gait steps per 400 repetitions. While imagining, they verbalized the gait phases.

Finally, they were submitted to a physical gait training. They executed 400 steps.

They underwent a single training session during 1 hour and 30 minutes and were reassessed 10 minutes and 1 day after the end of the session, in respect of the kinematic gait and mobility.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* the subjects should be in use of antiparkinsonian medication,
* be between stages 2 and 3 of the Hoehn and Yahr modified scale);
* walk without any brace or aid device, independently (scores between 3 and 5 of the Functional Ambulatory Category - FAC) for at least 10 meters
* were not undergoing stereotactic surgery.