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BACKGROUND:This study is aimed at better understanding the role of a wearable and silent ElectroMyoGraphy-based biofeedback on motor learning in children and adolescents with primary and secondary dystonia. METHODS:A crossover study with a wash-out period of at least 1 week was designed; the device provides the patient with a vibration proportional to the activation of an impaired target muscle. The protocol consisted of two 5-day blocks during which subjects were trained and tested on a figure-8 writing task: their performances (at different levels of difficulty) were evaluated in terms of both kinematics and muscular activations on day 1 and day 5, while the other 3 days were purely used as training sessions. The training was performed with and without using the biofeedback device: the week of use was randomized. Data were collected on 14 subjects with primary and secondary (acquired) dystonia (age: 6-19 years). RESULTS:Results comparing kinematic-based and EMG-based outcome measures pre- and post-training showed learning due to practice for both subjects with primary and secondary dystonia. On top of said learning, an improvement in terms of inter-joint coordination and muscular pattern functionality was recorded only for secondary dystonia subjects, when trained with the aid of the EMG-based biofeedback device. CONCLUSIONS:Our results support the hypothesis that children and adolescents with primary dystonia in which there is intact sensory processing do not benefit from feedback augmentation, whereas children with secondary dystonia, in which sensory deficits are often present, exhibit a higher learning capacity when augmented movement-related sensory information is provided. This study represents a fundamental investigation to address the scarcity of noninvasive therapeutic interventions for young subjects with dystonia.
journal_name
J Neuroeng Rehabiljournal_title
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationauthors
Casellato C,Ambrosini E,Galbiati A,Biffi E,Cesareo A,Beretta E,Lunardini F,Zorzi G,Sanger TD,Pedrocchi Adoi
10.1186/s12984-019-0620-ysubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-11-27 00:00:00pages
150issue
1issn
1743-0003pii
10.1186/s12984-019-0620-yjournal_volume
16pub_type
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