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Imagining movements with audio or video guidance

Researchers are comparing mental practice approaches alongside physiotherapy and measuring mobility and fall risk.

Testing a treatment or activity · Study reference: RBR-23nyf4

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Start (reported date): 2017-10-01

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2026-10-11 — recruiting

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Inclusion criteria: Patients with clinical diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease according to Ordinance No. 228/2010 of the Ministry of Health of Brazil; Both sexes; Patients aged 18-80 years; Stage 1 to 3 of Hoehn and Yahr's original scale. Exclusion criteria: Other neurological diseases; orthopedic, rheumatic and / or vascular pathology, with moderate or severe functional restriction in one or both lower limbs; uncontrolled hypertension and / or cardiac or respiratory disease that limits the execution of the protocol; with lowering of the cognitive level; with medical restriction to perform exercises; unable to perform the motor imagination, in physical therapy or occupational therapy for 3 months or more; with moderate to severe depression; with visual and auditory deficits that do not guarantee a good participation in the protocol; after deep brain stimulation surgery; with vestibular alterations; with lack of sensitivity in the lower limbs; users of orthosis for lower limbs; User of prosthetics; with edemas in the lower limbs and amputees

Full study name & original research details

Official study title

Mental Practice protocols for Functional Mobility and Risk of Falls in Parkinson's disease: A Randomized trial

Short title used by the registry

Comparison of the effects of Mental Practice protocols for Functional Mobility and Risk of Falls in Parkinson's disease

Original description

Intervention: Patients will be randomly divided into an audio-guided Mental Practice Group and a video-guided mental practice group. All patients will undergo 15 sessions of physiotherapy at a frequency of twice a week with approximately 50 minutes duration for Motor Physical Therapy and 10 minutes for the Mental Practice. The Audio Guided Mental Practice Group will consist of 23 participants with idiopathic Parkinson's disease. After the motor physical therapy, the volunteers randomized in this group will be directed to a quiet room where they will hear an audio describing the eight stages of the march, then will be guided to imagine walking for a period of approximately 1 minute. The Video Guided Mental Practice Group will also consist of 23 participants with idiopathic Parkinson's disease and after watching the video describing the eight stages of the march, will be guided to imagine walking for a period of approximately 1 minute. After the 15 sessions, the patients will have gait, balance and risk of falls assessed.;Other;E02.779 Primary outcome: Improvement in gait, evaluated by the 10-meter walk test, with a reduction of at least 10% in the number of steps, 5% reduction in cadence and a 10% increase in walking speed. Data collected 1 day before the intervention and 1 day after the intervention. Secondary outcome: 5% reduction in fear of falls, measured by the history of falls questionnaire, data collected 1 day before the intervention and 1 day after the intervention

Conditions reported: Parkinson Disease;C10.228.140.079.862.500

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REBEC · RBR-23nyf4 ↗ — Recruiting; WHO ICTRP processed 2025-10-27; checked 2026-10-13

Study type: Interventional
Interventions: Patients will be randomly divided into an audio-guided Mental Practice Group and a video-guided mental practice group. All patients will undergo 15 sessions of physiotherapy at a frequency of twice a week with approximately 50 minutes duration for Motor Physical Therapy and 10 minutes for the Mental Practice. The Audio Guided Mental Practice Group will consist of 23 participants with idiopathic Parkinson's disease. After the motor physical therapy, the volunteers randomized in this group will be directed to a quiet room where they will hear an audio describing the eight stages of the march, then will be guided to imagine walking for a period of approximately 1 minute. The Video Guided Mental Practice Group will also consist of 23 participants with idiopathic Parkinson's disease and after watching the video describing the eight stages of the march, will be guided to imagine walking for a period of approximately 1 minute. After the 15 sessions, the patients will have gait, balance and risk of falls assessed.;Other;E02.779
Phases: N/A
Sponsor: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Start date reported by registry: 2017-10-01 (reported)

Registry updated: Not reported · Status last verified by the registry submitter: Not reported

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Liliane Pereira da Silva · +55(81)984527989 · pereiradasilva20@hotmail.com

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Brazil

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