Reversible prolongation of motor conduction time after transcranial magnetic brain stimulation after neurogenic claudication in spinal stenosis

Spine

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 2284-2290

  Lang, Eberhard ^a   Hilz, Max Josef ^a   Erxleben, Harald ^a   Ernst, Mirko ^a   Neundörfer, Bernhard ^a   Liebig, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neurogenic claudication; Pain; Spinal stenosis; Transcranial magnetic brain stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG ISCHEMIA; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREADMILL; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

AGED; BRAIN; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0037108903     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200210150-00020     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Baramki HG, Steffen T, Schondorf R, et al. Motor conduction alterations in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis following the onset of neurogenic claudication. Eur Spine J 1999;8:411-16,
2. Bland JM, Altman DG. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet 1986;1:307-10.
3. Brton TC, Meyer BU, Benecke R. Variability of cortically evoked motor responses in multiple sclerosis. Etectroenceph Clin Neurophysiol 1991;81:186-94.
4. Feinstein B. Referred pain from paravertebral structure. In: Buerger AA, Tobis JS (eds). Approaches to the validation of manipulation therapy. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1977;139-74.
5. Fischer MJ, Reeh PW, Sauer SK. Low pH induced CGRP release from isolated rat sciatic nerve axons. Soc Neurosci Abstr 2001;27:926.6
6. Fruhstorfer H. Thermal sensibility changes during ischemic nerve block. Pain 1984;20:355-61.
7. Haldeman S. Clinical neurophysiology and electrodiagnostic testing in low back pain. In: Weinstein JN, Wiesel SW (eds). The lumbar spine. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1990;146-59.
8. Issberner U, Reeh PW, Steen KH. Pain due to tissue acidosis: a mechanism for inflammatory and ischemic myalgia? Neurosci Lett 1996;208:191-4.
9. Jönsson B, Annertz M, Sjöberg C, et al. A prospective and consecutive study of surgically treated lumbar spinal stenosis. Spine 1997;22:2938-44.
10. Katz JN, Lipson SJ, Chang LC, et al. Seven to 10-year outcome of decompressive surgery for degenerative lumbar spine disorders. Spine 1996;21:92-8.
11. Kellgren JH, Lewis T. Observations related to referred pain, visceromotor reflexes and other associated phenomena. Clin Sci 1939;4:47-71.
12. Kloten H, Meyer BU, Brton TC, et al. Normal values and age-related changes in magneto-electric evoked compound muscle potentials. Z EEG EMG 1992;23:29-36.
13. Kondo M, Matsuda H, Kureya S, et al. Electrophysiological studies of intermittent claudication in lumbar stenosis. Spine 1989;14:862-6.
14. London SF, England JD. Dynamic F waves in neurogenic claudication. Muscle Nerve 1991;14:457-61.
15. Onel D, Sari H, Doenmez C. Lumbar spinal stenosis: clinical/radiologic therapeutic evaluation in 145 patients: conservative or surgical intervention? Spine 1993;18:291-8.
16. Pastor P, Valls-Sole J. Recruitment curve of the soleus H reflex in patients with neurogenic claudicarion. Muscle Nerve 1998;21:985-90.
17. Porter RW. Spinal stenosis and neurogenic claudication. Spine 1996;21:2046-52.
18. Saadeh IK, Illis LS, Jamshidi Fard AR, et al. Reversible motor and sensory neurophysiological abnormalities in cauda equina claudication. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1994;57:1252-54.
19. Steen KH, Reeh PW, Anton F, et al. Protons setectively induce lasting excitation and sensitization to mechanical stimulation of nociceptors in rat skin, in vitro. J Neurosci 1992;12:86-95.
20. Valls-Sole J, Alvarez R, Tolosa ES. Responses of the soleus muscle to transcranial magnetic stimulation. Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol 1994;93:421-27.
21. Wilson CB. Significance of the small lumbar spinal canal: cauda equina compression syndromes due to spondylosis: part 3. Intermittent claudication. J Neurosurg 1969;31:499-506.