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title: Improve walking balance and attention
nct_id: NCT06444685
phase: NA
status: RECRUITING
sponsor: Universitat de Lleida
study_type: INTERVENTIONAL
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# Improve walking balance and attention

**Goal (in five words):** Improve walking balance and attention

**Official Title:** Motor and Cognitive Effects of Table Tennis on Parkinson's Disease: Pilot Controlled Trial

**Trial ID:** [NCT06444685](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06444685)

## Key Facts

- **Phase:** NA
- **Status:** RECRUITING
- **Study Type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Sponsor:** Universitat de Lleida
- **Target Enrollment:** 20 participants
- **Start Date:** 2023-10-01
- **Completion Date:** 2025-06-30
- **Conditions:** Parkinson Disease
- **Interventions:** Exercise and cognitive training interventino
- **Intervention Types:** OTHER

## Summary For Families

It tests whether regular table tennis can improve motor problems like balance, walking, and arm control, while also helping thinking skills such as attention, reaction time, and multitasking in people with early to mid-stage Parkinson's. The approach uses guided table tennis sessions that combine aerobic movement, repetitive arm and trunk use, hand-eye coordination, and fast decision making, activities that may boost motor control and cognitive processing through practice and increased brain blood flow, and it is meant to add to, not replace, usual medications like levodopa. The trial is looking for people aged 40 to 80 with Parkinson's at Hoehn and Yahr stages I to III who can walk 10 minutes unassisted, and excludes those with significant cognitive impairment (MMSE < 23), major vision or hearing loss, serious cardiac limits to exercise, or prior brain surgery.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 40 Years
- **Maximum age:** 80 Years
- **Sex:** ALL

### Full Criteria

```
Inclusion Criteria:

* Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease based on the UK PD Society Brain Bank Criteria
* Stage I to III on the Hoehn and Yahr scale
* Ability to walk for 10 minutes unassisted

Exclusion Criteria:

* Score of under 23 on the Mini-Mental State Examination
* Severe Visual or Auditory deficits
* Cardiovascular conditions that impede physical activity
* Brain surgery
```

## Locations (1)

- Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida, Lleida, Spain _(41.6167, 0.6222)_
  - Helena Fernández-Lago — (CONTACT) — 973702282 — helena.fernandez@udl.cat
  - Pere Bosch-Barceló — (CONTACT) — pere.bosch@udl.cat

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