title: Intensity sensitive modulation effect of theta burst form of median nerve stimulation on the monosynaptic spinal reflex.
abstract: The effects of electrical stimulation of median nerve with a continuous theta burst pattern (EcTBS) on the spinal H-reflex were studied. Different intensities and durations of EcTBS were given to the median nerve to 11 healthy individuals. The amplitude ratio of the H-reflex to maximum M wave (H/M ratio), corticospinal excitability and inhibition measured using motor evoked potentials (MEPs), short-interval intracortical inhibition and facilitation (SICI/ICF), spinal reciprocal inhibition (RI), and postactivation depression (PAD) were measured before and after EcTBS. In result, the H/M ratio was reduced followed by EcTBS at 90% H-reflex threshold, and the effect lasted longer after 1200 pulses than after 600 pulses of EcTBS. In contrast, EcTBS at 110% threshold facilitated the H/M ratio, while at 80% threshold it had no effect. Maximum M wave, MEPs, SICI/ICF, RI, and PAD all remained unchanged after EcTBS. In conclusion, EcTBS produced lasting effects purely on the H-reflex, probably, through effects on postsynaptic plasticity. The effect of EcTBS depends on the intensity and duration of stimulation. EcTBS is beneficial to research on mechanisms of human plasticity. Moreover, its ability to modulate spinal excitability is expected to have therapeutic benefits on neurological disorders involving spinal cord dysfunction.
authors.affiliation: Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Kuei-Lin
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Yeh
authors.affiliation: Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan ; Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Po-Yu
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Fong
authors.affiliation: Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan ; Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan ; Neuroscience Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ying-Zu
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004558:Electric Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D019054:Evoked Potentials, Motor; D005260:Female; D006181:H-Reflex; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008475:Median Nerve / Q000502:physiology*; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D011712:Pyramidal Tracts / Q000502:physiology; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000502:physiology*; D050781:Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; D055815:Young Adult
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