Variance of Sitting Function Acquired by Difference of Criteria of Physical Therapy in a Patient with Thalamus Hemorrhage -Case report using somatosensory evoked potential

• Published in: Journal of Kansai physical therapy Vol. 4; pp. 131 - 136
• Main Authors: Ishihama, Takashi, Kado, Naoki, Kotake, Kensaku, Yamamoto, Yoshinori, Gotoh, Atsushi, Daikuya, Shinichi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.01.2004
• ISSN: 1349-9572; 1349-9572

We saw physical therapy to a patient with thalamic hemorrhage, whose sitting function in body weight shifting training showed better improvement by passive treatment than by active repetition of body weight shifting. Then we examined the effects of physical therapy using the somatosensory evoked potential. It could be increased that the amplitude of somatosensory evoked potential, and could be increased the postural reflex and asymmetry of posture in body weight shifting training guided passive treatment which would be automatic movement, but the amplitude decreased under active movement, which could not induce improvement. This result suggested that automatic movement caused by passive treatment made sensory input, which may have affected thalamus, and the sensory information acquired in the motor output path. Therefore, body weight shifting training improved postural reflexes and asymmetry of posture.