EFFECT OF SENSORY ELECTRICAL STIMULATION ON RESTING TREMORS IN PATIENTS WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND SWEDDs
- Authors
- Heo, Jae-Hoon; Jeon, Hyeong-Min; Choi, Eui-Bum; Kwon, Do-Young; Eom, Gwang-Moon
- Issue Date
- 11월-2019
- Publisher
- WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
- Keywords
- Parkinson' s disease; SWEDDs; tremor; sensory electrical stimulation
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF MECHANICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, v.19, no.7
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF MECHANICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
- Volume
- 19
- Number
- 7
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/62031
- DOI
- 10.1142/S0219519419400335
- ISSN
- 0219-5194
- Abstract
- Patients with scans without evidence of dopaminergic deficits (SWEDDs) show symptoms (e.g., tremors) similar to those of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, so they are often misdiagnosed. Sensory electrical stimulation (SES) was reported to suppress essential tremor in patients, but SES was never applied to patients with PD and SWEDDs. As the pathophysiological mechanisms of PD and SWEDDs are likely to be different, we hypothesized that the effect of SES would also be different in the two patient groups. This study aimed to test that hypothesis. Fourteen patients with PD and nine with SWEDDs participated in this study. Three wrist muscles were stimulated for 15 s using SES with a stimulation intensity lower than the motor threshold. Angular motion of the index finger was measured via a triaxial gyrosensor before, during, and after stimulation. Outcome measures included the amplitude and peak frequency of the angular motion of the index finger. Tremor amplitude decreased during and after SES in patients with PD (p < 0.05). However, tremor amplitudes during and after SES were not different from the base level in SWEDDs patients. The peak frequency of tremors temporarily decreased during stimulation in PD patients, but not in SWEDDs patients. SES suppressed tremors in patients with PD, but not with SWEDDs. The results could help understand the pathophysiological differences of tremors between PD and SWEDDs.
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