Can somatosensory electrical stimulation relieve spasticity in post-stroke patients? A TMS pilot study

André Salles Cunha Peres; Victor Hugo Souza; João Marcos Yamasaki Catunda; Kelley Cristine Mazzeto-Betti; Taiza Elaine Grespan Santos-Pontelli; Claudia Domingues Vargas; Oswaldo Baffa; Draulio Barros De Araújo; Octávio Marques Pontes-Neto; João Pereira Leite; Marco Antonio Cavalcanti Garcia

doi:10.1515/bmt-2016-0162

Can somatosensory electrical stimulation relieve spasticity in post-stroke patients? A TMS pilot study

André Salles Cunha Peres, Victor Hugo Souza, João Marcos Yamasaki Catunda, Kelley Cristine Mazzeto-Betti, Taiza Elaine Grespan Santos-Pontelli, Claudia Domingues Vargas, Oswaldo Baffa, Draulio Barros De Araújo, Octávio Marques Pontes-Neto, João Pereira Leite, Marco Antonio Cavalcanti Garcia^*

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Abstract

Evidence suggests that somatosensory electrical stimulation (SES) may decrease the degree of spasticity from neural drives, although there is no agreement between corticospinal modulation and the level of spasticity. Thus, stroke patients and healthy subjects were submitted to SES (3 Hz) for 30′ on the impaired and dominant forearms, respectively. Motor evoked potentials induced by single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation were collected from two forearm muscles before and after SES. The passive resistance of the wrist joint was measured with an isokinetic system. We found no evidence of an acute carry-over effect of SES on the degree of spasticity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	501-506
Number of pages	6
Journal	Biomedizinische Technik
Volume	63
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/bmt-2016-0162
Publication status	Published - 26 Jul 2018
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

corticospinal tract
peripheral electrical stimulation
somatosensory electrical stimulation
spasticity
transcranial magnetic stimulation
upper motor neuron syndrome

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Peres, A. S. C., Souza, V. H., Catunda, J. M. Y., Mazzeto-Betti, K. C., Santos-Pontelli, T. E. G., Vargas, C. D., Baffa, O., De Araújo, D. B., Pontes-Neto, O. M., Leite, J. P., & Garcia, M. A. C. (2018). Can somatosensory electrical stimulation relieve spasticity in post-stroke patients? A TMS pilot study. Biomedizinische Technik, 63(4), 501-506. https://doi.org/10.1515/bmt-2016-0162

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