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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Parkinson’s Disease Volume 2012, Article ID 360231, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/360231 Research Article The PIT: SToPP Trial—A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial of Home-Based Physiotherapy for People with Parkinson’s Disease Using Video-Based Measures to Preserve Assessor Blinding Emma Stack,1, 2 Helen Roberts,1 and Ann Ashburn3 1 Faculty of Medicine, Academic Geriatric Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK 2 Southampton General Hospital, Mailpoint 886, Tremona Road, Southampton, Hampshire SO16 6YD, UK 3 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK Correspondence should be addressed to Emma Stack, els1n09@soton.ac.uk Received 25 July 2011; Accepted 22 August 2011 Academic Editor: Gammon M. Earhart Copyright © 2012 Emma Stack et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Purpose. To trial four-week’s physiotherapy targeting chair transfers for people with Parkinson’s disease (PwPD) and explore the feasibility of reliance on remote outcome measurement to preserve blinding. Scope. We recruited 47 PwPD and randomised 24 to a focused home physiotherapy programme (exercise, movement strategies, and cueing) and 23 to a control group. We evaluated transfers (plus mobility, balance, posture, and quality of life) before and after treatment and at followup (weeks 0, 4, 8, and 12) from video produced by, and questionnaires distributed by, treating physiotherapists. Participants fed back via end-of-study questionnaires. Thirty-five participants (74%) completed the trial. Excluding dropouts, 20% of questionnaire data and 9% of