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title: Complementary medicine to reduce stiffness
nct_id: NCT07207096
status: RECRUITING
sponsor: "St. Mary's University, Twickenham"
study_type: OBSERVATIONAL
canonical_url: "https://parkinsonspathways.com/trial/NCT07207096"
clinicaltrials_gov: "https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07207096"
last_fetched: "2026-05-10T14:08:40.916Z"
source: "Parkinson's Pathways (curated)"
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# Complementary medicine to reduce stiffness

**Goal (in five words):** Complementary medicine to reduce stiffness

**Official Title:** Observational Case Series of Patients With Parkinson's Disease (PD) Attending a Complementary Medicine Neuro-degenerative Disease (NDD) Clinic.

**Trial ID:** [NCT07207096](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07207096)

## Key Facts

- **Status:** RECRUITING
- **Study Type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Sponsor:** St. Mary's University, Twickenham
- **Target Enrollment:** 100 participants
- **Start Date:** 2025-09-19
- **Completion Date:** 2027-08-31
- **Conditions:** Parkinson Disease, Parkinsonism
- **Interventions:** complementary medicine
- **Intervention Types:** COMBINATION_PRODUCT

## Summary For Families

The goal is to track how people with Parkinson's disease or Parkinsonism do when they attend a complementary medicine neurodegenerative clinic, looking at symptom changes, safety, and quality of life over time. The approach is observational, recording which complementary therapies are used, for example tailored lifestyle and rehabilitation plans, acupuncture or other manual therapies, nutritional or herbal supplements, and mind-body approaches, and measuring how those treatments affect mobility, sleep, mood, pain and medication side effects; these therapies are provided alongside standard drugs like levodopa rather than replacing them, and the study will note any interactions or safety signals. Eligibility is adults 18 and older with a self-reported diagnosis of Parkinson's disease or Parkinsonism, excluding people who need acute medical care or who have another neurodegenerative diagnosis, and excluding those without a PD/Parkinsonism diagnosis even if they are at risk.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 18 Years
- **Sex:** ALL

### Full Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria: A diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease (self-reported), and Parkinsonism from any causes (patients may have co-existing other health conditions)

Exclusion Criteria: Patients requiring acute medical assessment and management, (as this is beyond the scope of this clinic service) Patients with any other NDD condition Patients without a diagnosis of PD/Parkinsonism. E.g. those at risk of PD such as through a family history (patients in this category may receive treatment at the clinic but are not included in the Observational Case series.
```

## Locations (1)

- Feldy Community Centre, London, United Kingdom _(51.5085, -0.1257)_
  - Androulla Pillos Smith — (CONTACT) — +44 7951788683 — androulla@homeopathy-uk.org
  - Monica Price — (CONTACT) — 020 36405903 — Monica@homeopathy-uk.org

## Central Contacts

- Philippa Fibert, PhD — (CONTACT) — +44 7543345046 — philippa.fibert@stmarys.ac.uk
- Yubraj Sharma, MD — (CONTACT) — ysharma@facultyofhomeopathy.org

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