Augmented Reality Treadmill Training in Patients With Parkinson's Disease

Augmented Reality Treadmill Training in Patients With Parkinson's Disease: a Randomized Controlled Study

Gait disorder is a disabling symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD) affecting all patients during the course. Three methods of treadmill training (TT) will be compared to assess additional augmented reality (AR), or additional dual task (DT). AR TT, DT TT, and TT alone applied over 3 weeks at each day will be compared for their impact on falls, walking, freezing and attention for 3 months in a double blinded randomized controlled trial during regular neurorehabilitation.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Informed Consent as documented by signature
• Parkinson´s disease without dementia and hallucination
• at least one fall within the past 3 months or postural instability
• Gait disorder
• Hoehn and Yahr stages II-IV
• able to perform the treadmill therapy during a study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Contraindications to treadmill therapy (e.g. hip fracture)
• Dementia as defined by an Montreal cognitive assessment (MOCA) < 20