Proprioception and Meditation

The Effects of Yoga Based Meditation on Proprioception in Individuals With Parkinson's Disease

In past work is has been shown that yoga can be as effective as a standard balance or Tai Chi protocol; however, there is an inability to distinguish between the mind and body contributions of yoga training. This study will compare an accepted proprioceptive training program to a meditation program which concentrates on body awareness in individuals with Parkinson's disease.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Parkinson Disease; Movement Disorders; Proprioceptive Disorders
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Proprioceptive Drills; Other: Yoga Meditation

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 20
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Florida
    • Coral Gables, Florida, United States, 33147
      • Laboratory of Neruomuscular Research and Active Aging

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 40 years to 90 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• An individual must be between 40 and 90 years of age with mild to moderate Parkinson's Disease (Hoehn & Yahr stages I-III).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participants that have been part of a formal training program that targeted lower body strength, balance or proprioception within the past six months
• Participants that have any uncontrolled nerve (except Parkinson's patients taking appropriate medication), bone or joint, or heart disease;
• Participants that have been advised by a doctor to not exercise;
• Participants that have regularly practiced yoga at least twice per week within the past six months;
• Participants that is unable to consent;
• Participants that is a prisoner;
• Participants that are pregnant.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Proprioceptive Drills; Includes drills during which participants perform multiplestances on a pillow, a number of different cone and line drills, reaching drills, object retrieval drills and drills using balls to disturb balance.	Other: Proprioceptive Drills; Active balance and proprioception drills
Experimental: Yoga Meditation; The meditation program will use simple poses during which the participant will not move and will concentrate on each of the participant's body parts and where they are in space.	Other: Yoga Meditation; Yoga meditation using motor imagery to perceive movement patterns

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Joint Position Sense	The joint position sense technique for the knee involves the reduction of visual cues while moving the knee to a specific target angle, holding that target angle, returning the knee to the starting position, and then reproducing that target angle.	20 minutes
Tinetti balance and gait.	A subjective evaluation of Balance and gait.	3 minutes.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
8ft Up and Go	Individuals sits in a chair at the verbal cue of "go", individual rises from chair and walks as quickly as possible around a cone placed 8 ft from the front of the chair, individual returns to and sits.	60 seconds
Joint Kinesthesia	The Joint Kinesthesia measurement technique involves the participant sitting in the Biodex chair with visual, audio, and tactile cues reduced and the leg supported by an external movement device. The knee is placed at a predetermined angle and slowly flexed or extended at a random starting time while the participant is instructed to signal when movement is felt.	20 minutes
Dynamic Posturography	The participant stands on a randomly moving platform with a sonar emitter affixed to the lumbar spine. As the platform moves the linear and curvilinear displacement of the emitter is evaluated and a dynamic movement analysis core is generated.	5 minutes

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Miami

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 17, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 30, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): July 30, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 8, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 8, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): March 15, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 6, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 2, 2019
• Last Verified: August 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Neurologic Manifestations; Parkinsonian Disorders; Basal Ganglia Diseases; Synucleinopathies; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Sensation Disorders; Disease; Parkinson Disease; Movement Disorders; Somatosensory Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: 20151138

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No