SUMMARY

Introduction: Stroke is one of the most common causes of mortality and long-term disability worldwide. For this reason, it is necessary to develop therapeutic procedures that would help alleviate the consequences of this disease.

Repetitive magnetic stimulation is a non-invasive neurostimulation and neuromodulation technique that uses the induction of a magnetic field to subsequently influence events in the brain in a complex manner. There is a growing body of scientific evidence in the medical literature regarding that repetitive magnetic stimulation may contribute to improvement of motor function in patients after stroke beyond standard therapies.

Objective: In the current article we present the protocol of a research project in which we plan to evaluate the impact of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on the recovery of motor functions in patients after stroke.

Material and methods: Based on literature data on the safety and efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, a therapeutic protocol for the application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve motor functions in patients after stroke was defined.

Results: The results of studies investigating the use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to alleviate motor deficit in patients after stroke indicate the safety of the intervention. However, data on its efficacy are highly heterogeneous, which may be due to differences in the therapeutic protocols used and the different timings of the intervention.

Conclusions: The procedures used in the current project could contribute to the implementation of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in the routine care of a patient after stroke. The project has the ambition to contribute to the identification of the appropriate timing of the intervention and to clarify the optimal parameters of the applied repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (Fig. 2, Ref. 10). Text v PDF www.lekarskyobzor.sk.

Key words: stroke, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Lek Obz 2022, 71 (10): 381-387

Katarína VALOVIČOVÁ 1,  Pavel ŠIARNIK 1, Stanislava KLOBUCKÁ 2, Zoltán GOLDENBERG 1, Eva MACHALOVÁ 1, Igor RIEČANSKÝ 3, 4, Eva VASKÁ 5, Eva KMETYOVÁ 6, Helena FARSKÁ 5,7, Andrea STREČANSKÁ 5, Marek SÝKORA 8, Peter TURČÁNI 1, Branislav KOLLÁR 1

1 I. neurologická klinika Lekárskej fakulty Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave a Univerzitnej nemocnice Bratislava, prednosta prof. MUDr. P. Turčáni, PhD.
2 Rehabilitačné centrum Harmony, n.o., Bratislava, primárka MUDr. S. Klobucká, PhD.
3 Centrum experimentálnej medicíny Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, riaditeľka doc. RNDr. O. Pecháňová, DrSc.
4 Psychiatrická klinika Slovenskej zdravotníckej univerzity v Bratislave, Bratislava, prednostka doc. MUDr. Ľ. Forgáčová, PhD.
5 Fakulta zdravotníckych vied, Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda, Trnava, dekan prof. MUDr. Ľ. Gašpar, CSc.
6 Fyziatricko-rehabilitačné oddelenie, Univerzitná nemocnica Bratislava, pracovisko Nemocnica sv. Cyrila a Metoda, primárka MUDr. E. Kmetyová
7 SANOM s.r.o., Bratislava, námestník pre zdravotnú starostlivos MUDr. Š. Kóňa
8 Neurological Intensive Care Unit & Stroke Unit, St. John of God Hospital, Viedeň, prednosta Prim. Univ.-Prof. dr. W. Lang

CITE
VALOVIČOVÁ K.,  ŠIARNIK P., KLOBUCKÁ S. et al.: Project protocol title „the influence of different types of non-pharmacological intervention on the recovery of motor functions in patients after stroke“. Lek Obz 2022, 71 (10): 381-387