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Effects of a new sensory re-education training tool on hand sensibility and manual dexterity in people with multiple sclerosis

Issue title: Neurobehavioural Disorders after Traumatic Brain Injury: Assessment, Treatment and Outcome

Guest editors: Roger Ll. Wood

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Kalron, Alona; * | Greenberg-Abrahami, Michala | Gelav, Simonaa | Achiron, Anata; b

Affiliations: [a] Multiple Sclerosis Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel – Hashomer, Israel | [b] Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Correspondence: [*] Address for correspondence: Alon Kalron, Multiple Sclerosis Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, 60 Habanim Street, Herzlia, Israel, Tel./Fax: +972 9 9512726; Tel.: +972 52 2436839; E-mail: [email protected]

Keywords: Multiple sclerosis, sensory deficits, sensory retraining, manual dexterity

DOI: 10.3233/NRE-130917

Journal: NeuroRehabilitation, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 943-948, 2013

Published: 29 July 2013
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Abstract

Objective:

To describe and evaluate the effects of a new home-based sensory re-education training tool on hand sensibility and manual dexterity in people with MS experiencing upper limb sensory deficits.

Methods:

Twenty-five people with relapsing-remitting MS (18 women), mean age 50.6 years (SD = 11.4), volunteered to participate. Participants were initially assigned to a 7-week control phase followed by a 3-week home-based sensory re-education phase. Measurements used were the nine-hole peg test, the two point discrimination test, the monofilaments test and the functional dexterity test. Measurements were collected at baseline, following the control phase and at the end of the trial.

Results:

Participants demonstrated an improvement in the nine-hole peg (26.8 (SD = 3.5) vs. 22.6 (SD = 3.2); mean difference (95% CI) 4.9 (0.9, 7.1), P = 0.03) and functional dexterity tests (38.6 (SD = 4.4) vs. 33.8 (SD = 4.9); mean difference (95% CI) 4.8 (1.8, 7.0); P = 0.02) at the end of the sensory re-education phase compared to the end of the control phase. No differences were observed as to the monofilaments and two-point discrimination tests.

Conclusions:

Sensory re-education training does not affect the level of sensory impairment in the hand but may lead to improvement in select measures of manual dexterity.

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