Sandyk R
NeuroCommunication Research Laboratories, Danbury, CT 06811, USA.
Int J Neurosci. 1996 Jul;86(1-2):79-85. doi: 10.3109/00207459608986700.
Cerebellar ataxia is one of the most disabling symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) and also one of the least responsive to pharmacotherapy. However, cerebellar symptoms often improve dramatically in MS patients by brief, extracerebral applications of picotesla flux electromagnetic fields (EMFs). This report concerns two MS patients with chronic disabling ataxia who experienced rapid improvement in gait and balance after receiving a series of treatments with EMFs. To assess whether improvement in cerebellar gait is accompanied by changes in body image perception, a parietal lobe function, both patients were administered the Human Figure Drawing Test before and after a series of brief treatments with EMFs. Prior to application of EMFs these patients' free drawings of a person showed a figure with a wide-based stance characteristic of cerebellar ataxia. After receiving a series of EMFs treatments both patients demonstrated a change in body image perception with the drawings of the human figure showing a normal stance. These findings demonstrate that in MS improvement in cerebellar symptoms by pulsed applications of picotesla EMFs is associated with changes in the body image.
小脑性共济失调是多发性硬化症（MS）最致残的症状之一，也是对药物治疗反应最差的症状之一。然而，通过短暂的脑外施加皮特斯拉通量电磁场（EMF），MS患者的小脑症状往往会显著改善。本报告涉及两名患有慢性致残性共济失调的MS患者，他们在接受一系列EMF治疗后，步态和平衡迅速改善。为了评估小脑步态的改善是否伴随着身体形象感知（一种顶叶功能）的变化，在对两名患者进行一系列短暂的EMF治疗前后，均对其进行了人体图形绘画测试。在施加EMF之前，这些患者画的人物自由画显示出具有小脑性共济失调特征的宽基站姿。在接受一系列EMF治疗后，两名患者的身体形象感知都发生了变化，所画的人物显示出正常的站姿。这些发现表明，在MS患者中，通过脉冲施加皮特斯拉EMF改善小脑症状与身体形象的变化有关。
