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Rehabilitation Protocol for Disorders on Hand Sensitivity in Multiple Sclerosis Patients.

NCT01866878 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2025-12-02

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Summary

Sensory disorders in patients with multiple sclerosis are among the most common symptoms encountered.

A functional impairment based on sensory disorders of the hand. The hand is a sensory organ that transmits the cerebral cortex protopathic sensitive information, proprioceptive or epicritiques. The view-hand association plays an important role in the understanding of the environment. Its exploratory use remains an essential and voluntary basis. The process of recognition of the object passes through manipulation, but operates instantaneously. The brain is able to do a quick summary of the information it receives to determine the nature of the manipulated object. The exploration takes a posteriori, the brain can then determine the details component object (texture, shape, composition, temperature and weight).

Neurophysiological mechanisms that would explain the analgesic effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) are not fully understood. Several theories underlying its use as a neuromodulator of pain. The gate control theory has led to the development of TENS devices. Recruitment of myelinated, large caliber, by the TENS electrodes afferent fibers increases the control exerted on spinal level, thereby inhibiting the action of afferent fibers of small caliber related to nociception. This stimulation strengthens the blocking of "gate" at the corresponding cell bodies of spinothalamic tract and reduces the transmission of nociceptive impulses to the spinal cord dorsal horn. This is segmental presynaptic inhibition depends on the area and stimulated.

The objective of this study is to improve the quality of life through improved sensitivity disorders of the hand in patients with MS, thanks to reeducation of the hand.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

equipment rehabilitation stereognosis

DEVICE

TENS

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mikael COHEN, Medical Doctor · Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-07-30
Primary Completion
2015-07-28
Completion
2015-07-28

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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