Measuring Internal Tremor in Parkinson's Disease Using Inertial Sensors
Uses motion sensors to detect internal tremor in adults with Parkinson's disease.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University Hospital, Toulouse
- Where
- Toulouse, FranceSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Detection of Internal Tremors by Oscillometry in Parkinson's Patient
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 60 people, planned
- Started
- 10 Feb 2026
- Expected to end
- 10 May 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groups
- Treatments tested
- Detection of objective internal tremors
- Record updated
- 17 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, and healthy volunteers of a similar age and sex as a comparison group. It tests whether an internal tremor can be detected with motion sensors.
- Age
- 18 Years to 80 Years
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- Parkinson's group: idiopathic Parkinson's disease, Hoehn and Yahr score of ≤3 in the OFF phase, able to stand unaided for 1 minute and walk unassisted.
- Earlier treatment
- Parkinson's group: people treated with deep brain stimulation, an apomorphine pump, duodopa intestinal infusion or foslevodopa cannot join.
- Biomarker or test result
- Mini Mental State Evaluation score of 25 or above in both groups. Parkinson's group must be willing to undergo accelerometry in the OFF state.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Atypical parkinsonian syndrome
- Unable to walk or stand for more than one minute in the OFF state
- Major bone or joint problems affecting walking
- Another neurological condition that may affect walking
- Pregnancy
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- (For the experimental group)
- Patient with idiopathic parkinson's disease
- Mini Mental State Evaluation score above or equal to 25
- Hoehn and Yahr scale score of ≤3 in the OFF phase, with postural stability allowing the patient to stand unaided for 1 minute
- Able to walk unassisted
- Willing to undergo accelerometry in the OFF state; (For the control group)
- Healthy volunteer subjects matched for age (+/- 5 years) and sex
- Mini Mental State Evaluation score above or equal to 25
Who cannot take part
- Parkinson's patients treated with deep brain stimulation, apomorphine pump, or duodopa intestinal infusion, and foslevodopa
- Patients with an atypical parkinsonian syndrome
- Neurological condition that may affect gait; (For the control group)
- Participants with significant gait impairment (osteoarticular disorder)
- Those with a neurological disease that, in the investigator's judgment, may interfere with the study's outcome measure
- Participants with a clinical tremor that may interfere with the measurement of the primary outcome (e.g., essential tremor, thyroid disease, or tremors induced by medication)
- (For the experimental group)
- Patients unable to walk or stand for more than one minute in the off state
- Pregnant patients
- Major osteoarticular problems
- Pregnant participants
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 18 and 80 years old?
Where in France
- Purpan HospitalToulouse, FranceContact: Ana Raquel PINHEIRO BARBOSATaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of the present study is to objectively access the presence of an Internal Tremor in Parkinson's disease. Inertial sensors will be used to detect the presence of a rhythmic oscillation of 3-4 Hz. The study will be performed in both Parkinson's disease patients and healthy controls to ascertain the specificity of this type of tremor.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Parkinson's disease patientsOther group
Parkinson's disease patient in the off phase.
Treatment: Detection of objective internal tremors
- Healthy participantsOther group
Treatment: Detection of objective internal tremors
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
- Detection of Internal Tremors by Oscillometry in Parkinson's Patient : a Pilot Study
- Plain-language title
- Measuring Internal Tremor in Parkinson's Disease Using Inertial SensorsGenerated 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.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT06885541, who can take part
- Record updated
- 17 February 2026