Sensory-motor and cardiorespiratory sensory rehabilitation associated with transcranial photobiomodulation in patients with central nervous system injury: Trial protocol for a single-center, randomized, double-blind, and controlled clinical trial

Ana Paula Pinto, Carolina Lobo Guimarães, Gabriela Aparecida da Silveira Souza, Patrícia Sardinha Leonardo, Marcele Florêncio das Neves, Fernanda Pupio Silva Lima, Mário Oliveira Lima, Rodrigo Alvaro Brandão Lopes-Martins, Ana Paula Pinto, Carolina Lobo Guimarães, Gabriela Aparecida da Silveira Souza, Patrícia Sardinha Leonardo, Marcele Florêncio das Neves, Fernanda Pupio Silva Lima, Mário Oliveira Lima, Rodrigo Alvaro Brandão Lopes-Martins

Abstract

Background: Central nervous system diseases such as stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and multiple sclerosis can be fatal or cause sequelae, affecting sensorimotor and cardiorespiratory systems and quality of life. These subjects present a low response to aerobic and resistance exercise, due to decreased recruitment of muscle fibers and reduction of metabolic capacity. Aerobic exercises bring benefits in terms of fatigue retardation, gait improvement, regulation of the autonomic nervous system, neuroprotection of the brain, stimulation of the production of endogenous neutrotransmitters related to general well-being, and a favoring of neuroplasticity. Photobiomodulation (PBM Therapy) (previously known as low-level laser therapy), and especially transcranial PBM Therapy, has shown benefits in animals and humans such as cognitive improvement, memory, and behavioral improvement, including attenuation of depression and anxiety, and increased cortical oxygenation. The aims of this trial will be to evaluate the parameters related to the function of the musculoskeletal and cardiorespiratory system and the impact of PBM therapy on these parameters, as part of a rehabilitation and training program for people with reduced mobility.

Methods: This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial with 3 groups: Control, only cardiorespiratory rehabilitation (CCR), CCR with PBM Therapy (CR-PBM), CCR and placebo PBM Therapy (CR-PlaceboPBM). n = 90, 30 per group. PBM Therapy parameters: 810 nm laser, 0.028 cm, 100 mW, 3.5 W/cm, 30 seconds per point, 3 J per point, 107.1 J /cm to 3 electroencephalogram points F7 and F8 and AFz. The trial will be conducted at the University Clinics and the sessions will be 1 hour twice a week for 9 weeks. Baseline, intermediate (4th week), final (9th week), and 2-month follow-up will be performed. Muscular activation, heart rate variability, lung volumes and capacities, fatigability, exercise tolerance, cognition, and quality of life at baseline will be evaluated. Subsequent to baseline evaluations, the PBM Therapy groups will be offered laser therapy (active or inactive); all groups will then receive CCR.

Trial registration number: ClinicalTrials.gov ID - NCT03751306 (approval date: November 22, 2018).

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Flow diagram of trial.
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Rehabilitation station and physical activity BrainMov.

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