Feasibility of a promising pulsed electrostimulator for rapid motor recovery of foot drop.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Foot drop still occurs in clinical practice, including in our case. Treatments for foot drop vary based on its etiology and severity of symptoms. Hence, in intractable foot drop cases, an invasive surgical intervention is needed. Here, we introduce a special noninvasive technique to treat our patient's foot drop. In this approach, we applied STIMPOD NMS460 neuromuscular stimulator device (STIMPOD NMS460), which is a low-frequency (10 Hz or less) transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) device with a pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) component. We are eager to know how effective the device is in treating foot drop, and we compared it with two kinds of surgical interventions.

Materials and methods

The device settings are 5 Hz in frequency and 30mA in current amplit

SUBMITTER: Chang YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10847864 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature