ArticleProgress in rehabilitation medicine2023
Immediate Reduction in Spasticity of Ankle Plantar Flexors in a Stroke Patient after Treatment with a Spinning Permanent Magnet Device.
Article in Progress in rehabilitation medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed, 0 citations in OpenAlex.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Magnetic stimulation devices can be large because of the need for cooling systems. We developed a compact and lightweight Spinning Permanent Magnet (SPM) device that generates magnetic fields with intensities below the motor threshold. In this report, we present the case of a post-stroke patient in which an immediate reduction in spasticity of the ankle plantar flexors was achieved after SPM treatment. Case: A 37-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a right putamen hemorrhage. The patient underwent conservative therapy and exhibited residual left hemiplegia and spasticity. Three months after stroke onset, he was able to walk with supervision while using a left ankle-foot orthosis and a T-cane. The Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) score of the left ankle plantar flexors was 1+. The plantar flexors were stimulated by SPM treatment. The outcomes were the Hmax/Mmax of the tibial nerve (soleus muscle) and the MAS score. On the first day, SPM stimulation was applied for 30 min. On the second day, a sham stimulation of the same duration was performed. On the third day, the SPM stimulation was repeated. Hmax/Mmax decreased from 41.5% to 37.7% on the first day, and from 46.9% to 31.6% on the third day after SPM stimulation. The MAS score decreased from 1+ to 1 on both days. In contrast, after sham stimulation, Hmax/Mmax increased from 39.2% to 44.2%, whereas the MAS score remained unchanged at 1+. Discussion: Stimulation below the motor threshold using SPM treatment can effectively reduce spasticity.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.