Clinical trialNCT02022735TerminatedInterventional

Deep Brain Stimulation Effects on Gait and Balance in Patients With Parkinson's Disease

SponsorUniversity of MiamiEnrollment22Parkinson's Disease

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Summary

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of Deep Brain stimulation (DBS) on walking in patients with Parkinson's disease that have had DBS. While DBS improves Parkinson's disease (PD) symptoms and walking in many patients in some of the patients walking problems persist. This study aims to find out what are the best stimulation parameters of the DBS in order to improve walking.

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Investigators

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Corneliu Luca, MD, PhD
University of Miami
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

University of Miami
Miami, Florida, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 1 Sept 2013
Primary completion: 1 Dec 2017
Completion: 1 Dec 2017
Last update posted: 28 May 2021
Registered enrollment: 22
Registry id: NCT02022735

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