脳卒中後空間無視患者に対する頸部筋振動療法の有効性に関する盲検化・対照・ランダム化臨床試験
Britta Stammler1,2, Carina Thiel3, Anne Lieb2
1Center for Neurology, Division of Neuropsychology, Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Tübingen, Germany.
Neurorehabilitation and neural repair
|January 26, 2026
まとめ
頸部筋振動(NMV)は、脳卒中後の片側空間無視(UN)の効果的な治療法であり、日常生活動作を改善します。この受動的療法は、標準的な無視療法と同等の持続的な効果を示し、早期リハビリテーションに理想的です。
科学分野:
- 神経科学
- リハビリテーション医学
- 臨床試験
背景:
- 片側空間無視(UN)は、右半球脳卒中後の回復を著しく妨げます。
- 頸部筋振動(NMV)はUNの固有受容感覚介入ですが、その単独の効果は厳密なテストが必要です。
- 本研究は、NMV単独でUN症状と日常生活が改善するかどうかを判断することを目的としました。
研究 の 目的:
- NMVの片側空間無視(UN)治療における単独の効果を評価すること。
- NMVが無視症状と日常生活動作(ADL)の両方に与える影響を評価すること。
- NMVと標準無視療法(SNT)の効果を比較すること。
主な方法:
- 右半球脳卒中およびUNを有する患者20名を対象としたランダム化盲検化比較試験。
- 患者は2週間、活動群NMVまたはプラセボNMVとコンピューターベースのトレーニングを受けました。
- 標準的な無視検査、自由探索検査(FET)、ADL測定値を用いて、検査前、検査後、追跡調査の評価を行いました。
主要な成果:
- 活動群NMV群は、無視検査、探索行動、ADLパフォーマンスにおいて有意な改善を示しました。
- NMV群の改善は、1ヶ月後の追跡調査でも持続していました。
- 活動群NMVとプラセボNMV併用SNTは同等の有効性を示し、群間に有意差はありませんでした。
結論:
- NMV単独で、臨床的に意味のある持続的な無視症状とADLの改善が得られます。
- NMVの効果は、標準無視療法(SNT)と同等です。
- NMVの受動的な性質は、早期脳卒中リハビリテーションのための有望な介入となります。
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