1. Alpha-phase synchrony EEG training for multi-resistant chronic low back pain patients: an open-label pilot study
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Marco Congedo, Arnaud Dupeyron, M. Ritz, Hélène Wu, Quentin Barthélemy, Patrick Favennec, Y. Delpierre, Louis Mayaud, Mensia Technologies [Paris], Covea Tech [Paris], Centre de l'Arche [PRH Le Mans], GIPSA - Vision and Brain Signal Processing (GIPSA-VIBS), Département Images et Signal (GIPSA-DIS), Grenoble Images Parole Signal Automatique (GIPSA-lab ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Grenoble Images Parole Signal Automatique (GIPSA-lab ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Département de Rééducation et Réadaptation Neuro Orthopédique [Nîmes] (Pôle NACRRE), Hôpital Universitaire Carémeau [Nîmes] (CHU Nîmes), and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes (CHU Nîmes)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes (CHU Nîmes)
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Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Visual Analog Scale ,[SDV.IB.IMA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Bioengineering/Imaging ,Visual analogue scale ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Population ,Pilot Projects ,Context (language use) ,Electroencephalography ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Physical medicine and rehabilitation ,medicine ,Humans ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,education ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,030222 orthopedics ,education.field_of_study ,Rehabilitation ,Resting state fMRI ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Middle Aged ,Neurofeedback ,3. Good health ,Opioid ,Conditioning, Operant ,Female ,Surgery ,Chronic Pain ,business ,Low Back Pain ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Chronic low back pain (cLBP) affects a quarter of a population during its lifetime. The most severe cases include patients not responding to interventions such as 5-week-long in-hospital multi-disciplinary protocols. This document reports on a pilot study offering an alpha-phase synchronization (APS) brain rehabilitation intervention to a population of n = 16 multi-resistant cLBP patients. The intervention consists of 20 sessions of highly controlled electroencephalography (EEG) APS operant conditioning (neurofeedback) paradigm delivered in the form of visual feedback. Visual analogue scale for pain, Dallas, Hamilton, and HAD were measured before, after, at 6-month and 12-month follow-up. Full-scalp EEG data were analyzed to study significant changes in the brain’s electrical activity. The intervention showed a great and lasting response of most measured clinical scales. The clinical improvement was lasting beyond the 6-month follow-up endpoints. The EEG data confirm that patients did control (intra-session trends) and learned to better control (intersession trends) their APS neuromarker resulting in (nonsignificant) baseline changes in their resting state activity. Last and most significantly, the alpha-phase concentration (APC) neuromarker, specific to phase rather than amplitude, was found to correlate significantly with the reduction in clinical symptoms in a typical dose–response effect. This first experiment highlights the role of the APC neuromarker in relation to the nucleus accumbens activity and its role on nociception and the chronicity of pain. This study suggests APC rehabilitation could be used clinically for the most severe cases of cLBP. Its excellent safety profile and availability as a home-use intervention makes it a potentially disruptive tool in the context of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioid abuses. These slides can be retrieved under Electronic Supplementary Material.
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- 2019