NCT06701318Not yet recruiting
Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography in Parkinson's Disease
Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography for Assessing Muscle Stiffness in Parkinson's Disease Patients
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 3 Feb 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor symptoms including muscle rigidity as one of major motor symptoms affecting quality of life of Parkinson's disease patients, thus we aim to assess and quantify muscle stiffness in those patients using Ultrasound shear wave elastography .
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 68 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 20 Nov 2024
- Start date
- Feb 2025
- Primary completion date
- Mar 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Assiut University
- Diseases
- Parkinson disease
- NCT number
- NCT06701318
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Planned participants: 68
- From Feb 2025 to the primary completion date, Mar 2025
- No sites listed in no country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Other illness
- History of other neurological or musculoskeletal disorders affecting the examined limb muscles.
- History of significant trauma or surgery in the examined limb within the last year.
- patients with contraindications to ultrasound( such as open skin wounds or severe skin conditions in the area of interest).
Who the study is looking for
- patient diagnosed with Parkinson's disease
- Age between 40-85 years
- No other neurological or musculoskeletal disorders affecting the examined limb muscles.
Age in the registry: 40 years to 85 years · Sex: All
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