IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Martino - Genova
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Villa Beretta Rehabilitation Center
Age
25–85
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
diagnosis of probable PD according to MDS criteria (Postuma et al., 2015) in staging between 1 and 3 on the Hoehn \& Yahr scale (Goetz et al., 2004) or diagnosis of MS according to the criteria of MC Donald 2010 (Polman et al., 2011) with disability level at the Expanded Disability Status Scale EDSS (Kurtzke, 1983) ≤ 4.5;
age between 25 and 85 years;
preserved cognitive level at the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test (MoCA test \>15.5) (Santangelo et al., 2015);
no rehabilitation program in place at the time of enrolment;
stable drug treatment (last three month) with L-Dopa or dopamine agonists (PD group) or Disease Modifying Therapies (DMTs) (MS group).
You may not be if
presence of comorbidities that might prevent patients from undertaking a safe home program or determining clinical instability (i.e., severe orthopedic or severe cognitive deficits);
presence of major psychiatric complications or personality disorders;
presence of severe impairment of visual and/or acoustic perception;
falls resulting in injuries or more than 2 falls in the 6 months prior to recruitment (PD and MS groups).
pregnancy
relapse ongoing/at least 3 months since the last relapse (MS group);
presence of "frequent" freezing as recorded at the administration of Section II (daily life activity) of the UPDRS (score ≥ 3) (PD group);
EDSS-FS (cerebellar function) ≥ 3 (MS group).
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