Home Video Game Exercises for Walking and Balance in Parkinson's Disease
Tests home rehabilitation games added to usual care in adults with Parkinson's disease.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University Hospital, Rouen
- Where
- Bordeaux, Lille, Paris, and Rouen, FranceSee the 4 sites
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Medico-economic Evaluation Rehabilitation by Serious Games at Home for the Management of Patients With Parkinson's Disease Suffering From Gait and Balance Disorders
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 80 people, planned
- Started
- 15 Feb 2023
- Expected to end
- 1 Feb 2029
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets no study treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- play-based rehabilitaion
- Record updated
- 6 February 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults with Parkinson's disease who have walking or balance problems and have fallen at least twice in the past year. Half will use a home video game for rehabilitation for 12 months.
- Age
- 18 years or older
- Sex
- All sexes
- Disease stage
- Idiopathic Parkinson's disease with walking and/or balance problems not improved by levodopa (MDS-UPDRS part II item 12 ≥ 1 and/or item 13 ≥ 1, ON levodopa).
- Earlier treatment
- Antiparkinson treatment must have been stable for at least 1 month before joining.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Hoehn&Yahr stage 5 (cannot stand or walk alone)
- Dementia (MMS < 24 and/or MoCA < 18)
- Impulse control disorder (MDS-UPDRS part I item 6 > 2)
- No internet connection at home
- Pregnant women, or women of childbearing age without contraception
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease (according to United Kingdom Parkinson's Disease Society Brain Bank [UKPDD] criteria)
- Age ≥ 18 years
- Patient with gait and/or balance disorders not improved by levodopa treatment with item 12 "walking and balance" ≥ 1 of the MDS-UPDRS (Movement-Disorders Society-Unified Parkinson's disease rating scale) part II, ON levodopa and/or item 13 of "gait freezing" ≥ 1 (Goetz, Tilley et al. 2008)
- Number of falls ≥ 2 in the previous year
- Stable antiparkinsonian treatments for at least 1 month prior to inclusion in the study
- Patient with social health insurance
- Person who voluntarily and informedly agreed to participate in the study (signed written consent)
- Other medical problems that are stable or do not interfere with the proposed protocol
Who cannot take part
- Parkinson's disease with Hoehn\&Yahr stage 5 corresponding to an inability of the subject to stand or walk alone
- Dementia (MMS < 24 and/or MoCA < 18)
- Presence of an impulse control disorder defined by item 6 of the MDS-UPDRS part I > 2
- Pregnant woman or woman of childbearing age without contraceptive methods
- Absence of internet connection at home
- Serious pathology interfering with the test
- Estimated life expectancy of less than 2 years
- Subject in a period of exclusion from further research
- Persons under guardianship, curatorship or any other administrative or judicial measure of deprivation of rights and liberty
Where in France
- CHU BordeauxBordeaux, FranceContact: Dominique Guehl, PrTaking people
- CHU LilleLille, FranceContact: Caroline Moreau, PrTaking people
- Gh Pitie SalpetriereParis, FranceContact: Louise Laure Mariani, DrTaking people
- Rouen University HospitalRouen, FranceContact: Marie-Laure WELTER, ProfessorTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
This is a multi-center, randomized, open-label, multi-center, randomized controlled study of 80 Parkinson's disease patients with gait and balance disorders in which 40 patients will be treated with serious games, in addition to their usual care, for 12 months and 40 patients will be treated with their usual care during this period. This study will be conducted in 4 centers, all of which are expert in the management of these patients.
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After randomization, each patient in the "Intervention-Rehabilitation through Toap Run" group will have to complete 2 to 3 sessions per week at home with the serious game "TOAP RUN" using the Kinect® system for 1 year.
The 2 groups in the trial
- play-based rehabilitationTreatment being tested
Patients randomized in the "play-based rehabilitation" group will perform 2 to 3 gambling rehabilitation sessions at home using the Kinect® system linked to the Curapy.com platform for 12 months.
Treatment: play-based rehabilitaion
- routine careNo study treatment, for comparison
Patients randomized in the "usual care" group will have their usual rehabilitation care provided by their physiotherapist.
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Medico-economic Evaluation Rehabilitation by Serious Games at Home for the Management of Patients With Parkinson's Disease Suffering From Gait and Balance Disorders
- Plain-language title
- Home Video Game Exercises for Walking and Balance in Parkinson's DiseaseGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 6 February 2026