Influência da fisioterapia na função motora e histopatologia da fibra muscular esquelética no modelo Golden Retriever Muscular Dystrophy (GRMD) / Physiotherapy influence in the Golden Retriever Muscular Dystrophy motor function and skeletal muscle histopathology (GRMD)

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2006

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The aim of this research was investigates the Physiotherapy influence as a complementary treatment in the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. A physical activities protocol was used focusing the skeletal muscle alterations, characteristics from the pathology, in the GRMD model through an analogy between these species. Six males and dystrophic animals from the GRMD kennel/USP were selected. The pathology confirmation was done by the DNA analysis in the Center of Human Genome - IB / USP. The younger dog was six months and the older one, thirteen (mean age 10,16 ± 3,43 and mean weigh 18,86 ± 3,04 kg). The first collect was in september 2005 and the collect II after six mounths (march/2006). Data about the animals functional status, joint range of movement (ROM) and skeletal muscle histopathological analysis was get. The functional assessment showed that between the six and twelve months of age, the muscular weakness started to reflects in important functional lost. From twelve months, there is a major stability of the difficult degrees to realize the functional activities. The values from the ROM assessment of the knee (107,83º ± 4,49), tarsal (114,16º ± 15,3) and carpal joint (151,16º ± 11,05) from the GRMD animals were statistically different compared to the mean values of the same joints in normal dogs of the same breed (115,89º ± 8,71; 123,57º ± 8,69; 131,42º ± 8,48, respectively). There was no difference between the mean from the elbow joint of the dystrophic group (120º ± 9,48) when compared with normal dogs from the same breed (119,82º ± 8,65) (p < 0.05). The mean value from the knee and elbow joint in the collect I and II was the same, in the treated and no treated group. There was a mean improvement from the tarsal joint of the treated group in the collect II (141,66º ± 7,63) related to collect I (115,83º ± 13,83). In the carpal joint, there was a stable median in the treated group between the two means (collect I and II). The mean from the deposition area of collagen in the collect I and II in relation of no treated group was the same. There was a significant increased of the collagen area to the animals from the treated group by the physiotherapy (p < 0.05). The same animals that had a improvement in the function with the physiotherapy had a bigger collagen area deposition. The physiotherapy application in the GRMD model leads to a better functional status to the joint and muscular gross structure, but the ultra structure degeneration had a maintenance of the pathology course.

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physiotherapy duchenne muscular dystrophy grmd model modelo grmd fisioterapia distrofia muscular de duchenne

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