There are more than four thousand active Parkinson's-related studies on ClinicalTrials.gov at any given time.
Most of them have nothing to do with you.
Wrong country. Wrong age range. Wrong subgroup. Wrong study type. Already closed to new participants. Or open to recruiting, but five states away.
Clinical Trial Match is the Parkinson's clinical trial finder built into The Club. It does the filtering for you and explains, in plain English, why each study showed up in your list.
The Problem With Most Trial Finders
Most people looking for a Parkinson's study end up in one of two places.
- ClinicalTrials.gov — the official U.S. government registry. Comprehensive, but built for researchers. The filters are clunky, the language is clinical, and the results are not ranked by what would actually work for you.
- A generic foundation page — helpful overview, but rarely tied to your real diagnosis, your real location, or what you actually want to participate in.
Both leave you doing the heavy lifting alone. That is the gap Clinical Trial Match was built to close.
How the Matching Actually Works
You answer a short profile inside The Club. It takes about two minutes.
- Your diagnosis & year diagnosed — used to filter inclusion criteria and study phase.
- Your country and region — so you only see trials near you, or remote-friendly trials anywhere.
- Your age range — so studies that exclude your age never show up.
- What you want to participate in — medication, device, exercise, surgery, observational, care-partner studies, and more. Pick any combination.
- Remote-friendly preference — flag studies that do not require traveling to a clinic.
Clinical Trial Match runs that profile against the live ClinicalTrials.gov registry and returns a short, ranked list of studies that are currently recruiting and actually fit.
Every match shows "Why this trial?" badges — quick visual chips like "Your diagnosis," "In your country," "Age range fits," or "Remote-friendly" — so you can see at a glance why a study was surfaced for you, without reading a 40-page protocol first.
What You Can Do With a Match
Finding the right study is only step one. Clinical Trial Match gives you the tools to act on it.
- Save trials you want to think about. Mark them as "Saved" or "Contacted." Dismiss the ones that are not a fit so they stop showing up.
- Print a doctor discussion sheet. One click produces a clean one-page summary — study purpose, inclusion criteria, site locations, official link, and a short list of questions to bring to your next movement-disorder appointment.
- Open the official study page. Every trial links straight to its canonical ClinicalTrials.gov record. No re-typing. No middleman.
- Get a weekly status digest. Opt in and we email you on Mondays whenever any of your saved trials change recruiting status or add a new study site. Opt-in is off by default.
- Email notifications when new trials match. When a brand-new study lands in the registry that fits your filters, you get a heads-up — not a daily spam blast.
The point of a trial finder is not to surface more trials.
It is to surface fewer trials — the right ones — so you can have a real conversation about whether one of them is worth your time.
- Bryce Perry, Founder of Doing Life Today
Your Privacy, Spelled Out
This part matters, so we are being specific.
- We never send your information to study sponsors. Clinical Trial Match does not "submit you" to any trial. Contacting a study team is something you do yourself, on your own terms, through the official ClinicalTrials.gov page.
- We never share your filters, location, or diagnosis with researchers. Your profile stays on your account.
- No exact location is ever stored. We use country and region only. No street address, no postal code shared with any third party.
- You can delete your Trial Match profile any time. One click. The data is gone.
You can read more about how the rest of the platform handles your data on the Doing Life Today privacy policy.
Who Clinical Trial Match Is For
It is for any adult with Parkinson's — or any care partner of an adult with Parkinson's — who has ever thought:
- "I keep hearing about research. How do I actually find a study I could join?"
- "I am newly diagnosed. Are there early-stage studies I should know about?"
- "I am open to a non-drug study — exercise, speech, sleep, technology — but I don't know where those even live."
- "My care partner could contribute too. Are there trials that include us?"
- "I tried ClinicalTrials.gov once. I bounced off in five minutes."
If you have ever wanted to participate in Parkinson's research but did not know where to start, this is where to start.
Helpful Resources
If you are still thinking through whether a clinical trial is right for you, these pages help fill in the picture.
Frequently Asked Questions About Clinical Trial Match
Clinical Trial Match is a Parkinson's clinical trial finder built into The Club. It pulls studies from ClinicalTrials.gov and matches them to your diagnosis, location, age, and interests so you only see studies that actually fit.
Clinical Trial Match is included with The Club. There is nothing extra to pay and no separate signup. The Club is currently in a waitlist phase ahead of public launch.
No. Clinical Trial Match never sends your name, email, location, or health profile to study sponsors. Your filters stay on your account. You decide whether and how to contact a study team directly through the official ClinicalTrials.gov page.
Listings come from ClinicalTrials.gov, the official U.S. government registry of clinical studies worldwide. Recruiting status, site locations, and contact details are pulled directly from each study's official record.
Yes. If you opt in, you get a weekly digest email when any of your saved trials change recruiting status or add a new study site. Opt-in is off by default and you can turn it off at any time inside your profile.
Yes. Every trial has a one-click "Discussion Sheet" that prints a clean summary of the study, the inclusion criteria, the sites, and the questions to ask. It is built for a real movement-disorder appointment, not a research lab.
No. Clinical Trial Match surfaces publicly listed studies and helps you organize them. The decision to participate in any clinical trial is always between you, your care team, and the study sponsor.