Perception of Affordances and Obstacle Crossing in People With Parkinson's Disease and Healthy Adults
Affordances and Impairments: A Paradigm for Understanding Obstacle Crossing in Parkinson's Disease
University of Haifa
180 participants
Apr 24, 2025
OBSERVATIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This study aims to explore how young adults, older adults and people with Parkinson's disease (PwP), perceive their abilty to cross obstacles while walking, and how this perception is related to their actual performance of obstacle crossing and disease-related motor and cognitive impairments. The study will explore this percepeption and the actual performance in different walking environments(floor, synthetic grass turf). Understanding how people perceive obstacles may help improve rehabilitation methods and reduce the risk of falls. The study will take place at the Motor Performance Laboratory, University of Haifa, and will include walking tasks, eye-tracking measurements, and motor and cognitive assessments.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria4
- Participants aged 20 to 80 years.
- Ability to walk independently outdoors without assistive devices.
- For Parkinson's Disease (PD) group: Diagnosis of PD confirmed by medical records.
- For healthy control groups: No neurological or orthopedic conditions affecting gait.
Exclusion Criteria4
- Feezing of gait (for PD group only), based on a score greater than 0 on the Freezing of Gait Questionnaire.
- Severe visual impairment that cannot be corrected with glasses or lenses.
- Cognitive impairment, defined as a score below 18 on the telephone-based Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).
- Any orthopedic condition, pain, or other medical condition that may affect walking, based on self-report.
Interventions
Participants will perform walking tasks involving obstacle crossing while their gait and visual exploration patterns are recorded using wearable sensors and eye-tracking glasses. This is a non-invasive observational study with no therapeutic intervention.
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NCT06932679