title: Neuromuscular rehabilitation by treadmill running or electrical stimulation after peripheral nerve injury and repair.
abstract: Numerous studies have been devoted to the regeneration of the motor pathway toward a denervated muscle after nerve injury. However, the regeneration of sensory muscle endings after repair by self-anastomosis are little studied. In previous electrophysiological studies, our laboratory showed that the functional characteristics of tibialis anterior muscle afferents are differentially affected after injury and repair of the peroneal nerve with and without chronic electrostimulation. The present study focuses on the axonal regeneration of mechano- (fibers I and II) and metabosensitive (fibers III and IV) muscle afferents by evaluating the recovery of their response to different test agents after nerve injury and repair by self-anastomosis during 10 wk of treadmill running (LSR). Data were compared with control animals (C), animals with nerve lesion and suture (LS), and animals with lesion, suture, and chronic muscle rehabilitation by electrostimulation (LSE) with a biphasic current modulated in pulse duration and frequency, eliciting a pattern mimicking the activity delivered by the nerve to the muscle. Compared with the C group, results indicated that 1) muscle weight was smaller in LS and LSR groups, 2) the fatigue index was greater in the LS group and smaller in the LSE group, 3) metabosensibility remained altered in the LS and LSE groups, and 4) mechanosensitivity presented a large increase of the activation pattern in the LS and LSE groups. Our data indicated that chronic muscle electrostimulation partially favors the recovery of muscle properties (i.e., muscle weight and twitch response were close to the C group) and that rehabilitation by treadmill running also efficiently induced a better functional muscle afferent recovery (i.e., the discharge pattern was similar to the C group). The effectiveness of the chronic electromyostimulation and the treadmill exercise on afferent recovery is discussed with regard to parameters listed above.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire des Déterminants Physiologiques de l'Activité Physique, Institut Fédératif de Recherches Etienne-Jules MAREY, Faculté des Sciences du Sport de Marseille-Luminy, Université de la Méditerranée, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France.
authors.forename: Tanguy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Marqueste
authors.forename: Jean-Roch
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Alliez
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Alluin
authors.forename: Yves
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jammes
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Decherchi
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005260:Female; D007267:Injections; D019344:Lactic Acid / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology; D009043:Motor Activity; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D018763:Muscle Fatigue; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000294:innervation / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D009416:Nerve Regeneration; D009469:Neuromuscular Junction / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009475:Neurons, Afferent; D009929:Organ Size; D059348:Peripheral Nerve Injuries; D011189:Potassium Chloride / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013710:Tendons / Q000503:physiopathology; D014732:Vibration; D014945:Wound Healing; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D019344:Lactic Acid; D011189:Potassium Chloride