In order to find the most effective rehabilitative therapies for Parkinsonian patients, the present study is aimed to evaluate whether, in a multidisciplinary intensive rehabilitation treatment, the dance therapy, applied to the motor learning, promote additional benefits.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
100
the intervention is aimed to ameliorate, through dancing, crucial motor symptoms in PD patients, as walking, balance, postural changes and arm swing
the intervention consists of exercises aimed at training the walking, the balance, the postural changes and the arm swing
Department of Parkinson's Disease and Brain Injury Rehabilitation, of the 'Moriggia-Pelascini' Hospital
Gravedona Ed Uniti, Como, Italy
RECRUITINGTimed Up and Go Test (TUG)
To determine fall risk and measure the progress of balance, sit to stand, and walking.
Time frame: 4 weeks
6 Minutes Walking Test (6MWT)
The 6MWT measures the distance an individual is able to walk over a total of six minutes on a hard, flat surface. The goal is for the individual to walk as far as possible in six minutes.
Time frame: 4 weeks
Balance Berg Scale (BBS)
to objectively determine a patient's ability (or inability) to safely balance during a series of predetermined tasks.
Time frame: 4 weeks
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