Tai Chi for Reducing Dual-task Gait Variability, a Potential Mediator of Fall Risk in Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the feasibility and inform design features of a fully powered randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating the effects of Tai Chi (TC) in Parkinson's disease (PD) and to select outcomes most responsive to TC assessed during off-medication states.

Design

Two-arm, wait-list controlled RCT.

Settings

Tertiary care hospital.

Subjects

Thirty-two subjects aged 40-75 diagnosed with idiopathic PD within 10 years.

Interventions

Six-month TC intervention added to usual care (UC) versus UC alone.

Outcome measures

Primary outcomes were feasibility-related (recruitment rate, adherence, and compliance). Change in dual-task (DT) gait stride-time variability (STV) from baseline to 6 months was defined, a priori, as the clinical outcome measure

SUBMITTER: Vergara-Diaz G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5960860 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature