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Trial reportJournal of rehabilitation medicine2021

Effectiveness of robotic balance training on postural instability in patients with mild Parkinson's disease: A pilot, single blind, randomized controlled trial.

Stefania Spina, Salvatore Facciorusso, Nicoletta Cinone, Raffaella Armiento, Alessandro Picelli, Christian Avvantaggiato, Chiara Ciritella, Pietro Fiore, Andrea Santamato

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of rehabilitation medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stefania SpinaPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation Section, Policlinico Riuniti, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
Salvatore Facciorusso
Nicoletta Cinone
Raffaella Armiento
Alessandro Picelli
Christian Avvantaggiato
Chiara Ciritella
Pietro Fiore
Andrea Santamato
University of Foggia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo examine whether tailored robotic platform training could improve postural stability compared with conventional balance treatment in patients with mild Parkinson's disease.  Design: Randomized single-blind pilot study. SUBJECTS: Twenty-two patients with mild Parkinson's disease (Hoehn and Yahr scale; HandY 1-2).

methodsPatients were randomly assigned to an experimental group for robotic balance training and to a control group for conventional balance training. Each patient received 20 treatments (45 min/session, 5 times/week). Blinded evaluations were conducted before and after the treatment and 1 month post-treatment. Primary outcome measures were Mini BESTest, and Berg Balance Scale; secondary outcome measures were 10-Meter Walk Test, Five Times Sit to Stand Test, and Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire 39.

resultsPrimary outcome measures in patients in both the experimental and control groups improved significantly after the balance treatment. Similar results were found for all the secondary outcome measures. The experimental group performed significantly better than the control group at both post-intervention and follow-up evaluation in the primary outcomes (p < 0.05). No significant differences be-tween groups were found in secondary outcomes.

conclusionRobot-assisted balance training may be a promising tool to improve postural stability in patients with mild Parkinson's disease.

Indexed as

AgedExercise TherapyFemaleHumansMaleParkinson DiseasePilot ProjectsPostural BalanceRoboticsSingle-Blind MethodneurorehabilitationParkinson's diseasepostural instabilityrobotic-assisted balance training

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PMID33585943
PMCPMC8814837
OpenAlexW3126794424

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