Análise clínica e funcional da espasticidade antes e após a estimulação elétrica neuromuscular e marcha em esteira com EENM em lesados medulares / Clinical and functional analysis of spasticity before and after neuromuscular electrical stimulation and treadmill gait with NMES in spinal cord injury

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

17/01/2012

RESUMO

Spinal cord injury has as one of its consequences the spasticity, which is usually present in lesions above the last thoracic level (T12) and it can be assessed through quantitative and qualitative indicators. In the study it was evaluated two groups: Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) group with sixteen patients and the group of eight patients that performed treadmill gait with partial body weigth support and NMES, all of them were diagnosed with paraplegia or tetraplegia with some degree of spasticity. The following scales were used for assessment: Modified Ashworth Scale, Muscle Spasms Scale, Subjective Scale of Spasticity and the pendulum test. For application of the pendulum test it was used Pendular Test Device (PTD) was used, this equipment was designed and built specifically to evaluate spasticity, which has an accelerometer of quartz crystals transducer and a flexible fiber optic electrogoniometer to measure the acceleration and angular displacement, respectively. The patients in the NMES group performed NMES in the quadriceps muscle and fibular nerve, and the tests were applied before and after the procedure. The same was done for the treadmill gait with NMES group. The data showed a decrease in spasticity in both groups, represented in the NMES group by changes in the F1Ang, F1Amp, E1Amp, Plat Amp and ERI parameters of the PTD and the gait group also presented a change in the E1Ang. In the group NMES, which was divided (patients with and without drugs), it was noticed a significant difference in the subgroup without medication in most parameters. However, in the subgroup with medication only the OnAng and RI parameters were significant. In addition, data from the Subjective Scale of Spasticity and the Modified Ashworth Scale also showed a reduction in the values in the spasticity, and in the group of treadmill gait just a Subjective Scale of Spasticity was significant.

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espasticidade estimulação elétrica marcha paraplegia tetraplegia spasticity electrical stimulation gait paraplegia quadriplegia

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