Washington: Works of nineteenth-century neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot, are being replicated by the US neurologists to help the patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease.
Charcot used to give medical treatment to people affected by the diseases using a vibration chair. He found signs of improvement in his patients, but, unfortunately he died shortly thereafter and a more complete evaluation of the therapy was never conducted.
Now, a group of neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Centre in the US are replicating his findings to check if they hold water in this modern age.
Results indicate that while vibration therapy does significantly improve some symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, the effect is due to placebo or other non-specific factors and not the vibration, the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease reports.
“We attempted to mimic Charcot’s protocol with modern equipment in order to confirm or refute an historical observation,” explains lead investigator Christopher G. Goetz, director of the Parkinson’s disease and Movement Disorders Centre at Rush.
“Both the treated group and the control group improved similarly, suggesting other factors had an effect on Parkinson’s disease motor function,” said Goetz, according to a Rush statement.
“Our results confirm Charcot’s observation of improvement in Parkinson’s disease symptomology with chronic vibration treatment, but we did not find the effect specific to vibration,” he said.
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