Autocorrelated Rhythmic Auditory Stimulations as the Best Way to Use a Metronome for Parkinson's Disease Patients: a Prospective Cohort Study
Completed Not Applicable NCT03716674
Study Description
Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients suffer from gait impairments responsible for falls and bad quality of life: reduced speed and stride length, randomness in stride duration variability (reduced Long-Range Autocorrelations (LRA)). Authors showed beneficial effects of isochronic Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS) on stride length and speed but a deleterious effect on LRA. The aim of this prospective cohort study was to compare between 3 different RAS (isochronic, random and autocorrelated) on 9 PD patients' gait parameters and stride duration variability. Although the autocorrelated RAS (AC) does not improve the LRA present in the stride duration variability, the AC does, however, maintain an acceptable level of LRA for PD patients' gait stability. The autocorrelated RAS would therefore possibly be the best way to apply auditory cueing to PD patients but this must be confirmed by future longitudinal studies.
Study Details
- Registry ID:
- NCT03716674
- Conditions:
- Parkinson Disease
- Phase:
- Not Applicable
- Target Enrollment:
- 9 participants
- Start Date:
- Age Range:
- 0–999 years
- Healthy Volunteers:
- No
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