Bartel Lee, Dyback Peter, Khan Aslam
Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2C5, Canada.
Neuro Spinal Innovation Inc., Mississauga, ON L5L 3K3, Canada.
Healthcare (Basel). 2024 Aug 17;12(16):1640. doi: 10.3390/healthcare12161640.
This paper presents a case of a 35-year-old female patient diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) type I and treated over a two-month period with a novel low-frequency sound-transduced focal pulsed stimulus. The patient received 21 treatments consisting of focally applied sound sweeps in the 15-100 Hz range. Outcome measures included the Visual Analogue Scale for pain, five physical assessment parameters, medication, and the Pain Catastrophizing Scale. A follow-up was conducted at six months. The results show that the patient's low-back pain level was substantially reduced after treatment and after six months. CRPS-related peripheral pain was strongly reduced but had some rebound after six months. The low-frequency sound-transduced focal pulsed stimulus shows potential as a non-invasive treatment for CRPS and deserves controlled clinical trials.
本文介绍了一例35岁女性患者，被诊断为I型复杂性区域疼痛综合征（CRPS），并在两个月内接受了一种新型低频声音传导聚焦脉冲刺激治疗。患者接受了21次治疗，包括在15 - 100Hz范围内局部应用声音扫描。结果测量包括疼痛视觉模拟量表、五个身体评估参数、药物治疗和疼痛灾难化量表。在六个月时进行了随访。结果显示，治疗后及六个月后，患者的下背部疼痛水平大幅降低。与CRPS相关的外周疼痛明显减轻，但六个月后有一定程度的反弹。低频声音传导聚焦脉冲刺激显示出作为CRPS非侵入性治疗方法的潜力，值得进行对照临床试验。
