Abstract #1737

Therapeutic modulation of somatosensory evoked response in pain-related cortex on chronic lumbago.

CHUZO TANAKA^1,2, TOMOKAZU MURASE³, MASAKI FUKUNAGA⁴, MASAHIRO UMEDA⁵, YASUHIRO WATANABE⁵, YUKO KAWAI⁵, SETSUO HAKATA⁶, SHOJI NARUSE⁷, and TOSHIHIRO HIGUCHI⁸

¹NEUROSURGERY, RAKUWA VILLA-ILIOS, Kyoto, Japan, ²Meiji University of Integrative Medicine, kyoto, Japan, ³Meiji University of Integrative Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, ⁴Cerebral Integration, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan, ⁵Medical Informatics, Meiji University of Integrative Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, ⁶Japanese Medical Society of Arthrokinematic Approach, Osaka, Japan, ⁷2nd Okamoto General Hospital, Kyoto, Japan, ⁸Neurosurgery, Meiji University of Integrative Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

To clarify therapeutic modulatory effects on brain activation in pain-related cortex of chronic lumbago using somatosensory stimulation with treatment for pain relief, twenty participants were divided into two groups, S1 activated (S1(+)) and S1 non-activated (S1(-)) group. There were no activated areas in pain-related cortex in S1 (-) group immediately after treatment for pain relief. Immediately after treatment, rs-fMRI of S1(-) group showed a significant signal decrease in contralateral S2 of pain-related network. It was suggested to diminish pain-related network activation by somatosensory stimulation on chronic lumbago immediately after treatment for pain relief.

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