Status:
UNKNOWN
Is Remote Physiotherapy Effective for People With Early Parkinson's (PEEP)
Lead Sponsor:
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Conditions:
Parkinson Disease
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative condition affecting 145,500 people in the UK. The condition impairs movement leading to gait and dexterity problems. Various types of exercise ar...
Detailed Description
The Principle research question is: * To explore the experience and opinions of people with Parkinson's in relation to physiotherapy and exercise in early disease. * To develop a physiotherapy exerci...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- INCLUSION CRITERIA Survey of people with Parkinson's
- People with Parkinson's aged \>18, diagnosed within the last 4 years.
- Able to read and write English.
- Willing to take part in survey.
- Feasibility RCT
- Parkinson's disease diagnosed \<4 years before study entry
- Parkinson's diagnoses fits UK Brain Bank criteria
- Age ≥18 years at study entry
- Willingness to attend for physiotherapy interventions
- Ability to transfer and walk independently
- Stable Parkinson's medication:
- Parkinson's medication not commenced or altered in last 2 months.
- Changes to Parkinson's medication are not planned/scheduled in next 6 months
- Participants not on PD medication can be recruited. (Treating clinicians can change Parkinson's medication during study according to clinical need and changes will be recorded on case report form.)
- Qualitative process evaluation
- Participants of the feasibility RCT
- Physiotherapists within the trial conducting assessments and treatments.
- Research Nurses who delivered the RCT
- EXCLUSION CRITERIA
- Hoehn-Yahr stage 4-5 (Hoehn -Yahr staging included as Appendix 2)
- Lacks capacity to consent
- Meets the criteria for commencement of the Gold Standards Framework (see Appendix 3)
- Falls \[more than 1 fall in the 3 months prior to enrolment\]
- Freezing of gait
- Already had outpatient (OP) or community physiotherapy for Parkinson's:
- OP physiotherapy for trauma or arthritis will not be exclusion A single one -off assessment of Parkinson's by a physiotherapist will not be an exclusion Attendance at exercise classes which are not supervised by a physiotherapist will not count as an exclusion.
- IP physiotherapy will not count as an exclusion Unable to communicate in English
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 1 2021
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
November 1 2023
Estimated Enrollment :
40 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04389138
Start Date
May 1 2021
End Date
November 1 2023
Last Update
April 15 2021
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