Christian Blahak1,2, Marc E Wolf3,4, Assel Saryyeva5, Hansjoerg Baezner3,4, Joachim K Krauss5. 1. Department of Neurology, UniversitaetsMedizin Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany. christian.blahak@ortenau-klinikum.de. 2. Department of Neurology, Ortenau-Klinikum Lahr, Klostenstrasse 19, 7933, Lahr, Germany. christian.blahak@ortenau-klinikum.de. 3. Department of Neurology, UniversitaetsMedizin Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany. 4. Department of Neurology, Klinikum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. 5. Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the globus pallidus internus (GPi) has become an accepted treatment for severe cervical dystonia (CD). Assessment of therapeutic efficacy of DBS mostly focused on head position at rest but hardly on limitations of head and neck mobility, which represent a functionally important impairment in CD. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine prospectively head and neck range of motion (ROM) preoperatively and during chronic bilateral GPi DBS in a series of 11 patients with idiopathic CD or segmental dystonia with prominent CD using a computerized motion analysis. METHODS: Maximum horizontal rotation of the head in the transverse plane and lateral inclination in the frontal plane were measured preoperatively and at a median of 7 months of chronic GPi DBS, using an ultrasound-based three-dimensional measuring system combined with surface electromyography of cervical muscles. RESULTS: Horizontal rotation of the head increased from 78.8° ± 31.5° (mean ± SD) preoperatively to 100.7° ± 24.7° with GPi DBS (p < 0.01), thereby improvement of head rotation to the anti-dystonic side (+ 14,2° ± 12,2°) was greater than to the pro-dystonic side (+ 7,8° ± 9,2°; p < 0.05). Movement-related agonistic-antagonistic EMG modulation during head rotation was enhanced with GPi DBS in both sternocleidomastoid (modulation index (MI) 35.8% ± 26.7% preoperatively vs. 67.3% ± 16.9% with GPi DBS, p < 0.01), and splenius capitis muscles (MI 1.9% ± 24.5% preoperatively vs. 44.8% ± 11.6% with GPi DBS, p < 0.01). CONCLUSION: Chronic bilateral GPi DBS significantly improves head ROM in CD, likely due to enhanced agonist-antagonist EMG activity with reduced co-contraction. Computerized motion analysis provides an objective measurement to assess the improvement of head and neck mobility in CD.
BACKGROUND: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the globus pallidus internus (GPi) has become an accepted treatment for severe cervical dystonia (CD). Assessment of therapeutic efficacy of DBS mostly focused on head position at rest but hardly on limitations of head and neck mobility, which represent a functionally important impairment in CD. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine prospectively head and neck range of motion (ROM) preoperatively and during chronic bilateral GPi DBS in a series of 11 patients with idiopathic CD or segmental dystonia with prominent CD using a computerized motion analysis. METHODS: Maximum horizontal rotation of the head in the transverse plane and lateral inclination in the frontal plane were measured preoperatively and at a median of 7 months of chronic GPi DBS, using an ultrasound-based three-dimensional measuring system combined with surface electromyography of cervical muscles. RESULTS: Horizontal rotation of the head increased from 78.8° ± 31.5° (mean ± SD) preoperatively to 100.7° ± 24.7° with GPi DBS (p < 0.01), thereby improvement of head rotation to the anti-dystonic side (+ 14,2° ± 12,2°) was greater than to the pro-dystonic side (+ 7,8° ± 9,2°; p < 0.05). Movement-related agonistic-antagonistic EMG modulation during head rotation was enhanced with GPi DBS in both sternocleidomastoid (modulation index (MI) 35.8% ± 26.7% preoperatively vs. 67.3% ± 16.9% with GPi DBS, p < 0.01), and splenius capitis muscles (MI 1.9% ± 24.5% preoperatively vs. 44.8% ± 11.6% with GPi DBS, p < 0.01). CONCLUSION: Chronic bilateral GPi DBS significantly improves head ROM in CD, likely due to enhanced agonist-antagonist EMG activity with reduced co-contraction. Computerized motion analysis provides an objective measurement to assess the improvement of head and neck mobility in CD.
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