• Eur J Pain · Jul 2021

    Randomized Controlled Trial

    Abnormal sensory thresholds of dystonic patients are not affected by deep brain stimulation.

    • Clarice Listik, Rubens Gisbert Cury, Valquiria Aparecida da Silva, Sara Carvalho Barbosa Casagrande, Eduardo Listik, Naira Link, Ricardo Galhardoni, Egberto Reis Barbosa, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira, and Daniel Ciampi de Andrade.
    • Movement Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
    • Eur J Pain. 2021 Jul 1; 25 (6): 1355-1366.

    BackgroundUnlike motor symptoms, the effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) on non-motor symptoms associated with dystonia remain unknown.MethodsThe objective of this study was to assess the effects of DBS on evoked experimental pain and cutaneous sensory thresholds in a crossover, double-blind on/off study and compare these results with those of healthy volunteers (HV).ResultsSixteen patients with idiopathic dystonia (39.9 ± 13 years old, n = 14 generalized) with DBS of the globus pallidus internus underwent a battery of quantitative sensory testing and assessment using a pain top-down modulation system (conditioned pain modulation, CPM). Results for the more and less dystonic body regions were compared in on and off stimulation. The patients' results were compared to age- and sex-matched HV. Descending pain modulation CPM responses in dystonic patients (on-DBS, 11.8 ± 40.7; off-DBS, 1.8 ± 22.1) was abnormally low (defective) compared to HV (-15.6 ± 23.5, respectively p = .006 and p = .042). Cold pain threshold and cold hyperalgesia were 54.8% and 95.7% higher in dystonic patients compared to HV. On-DBS CPM correlated with higher Burke-Fahn-Marsden disability score (r = 0.598; p = .014). While sensory and pain thresholds were not affected by DBS on/off condition, pain modulation was abnormal in dystonic patients and tended to be aggravated by DBS.ConclusionThe analgesic effects after DBS do not seem to depend on short-duration changes in cutaneous sensory thresholds in dystonic patients and may be related to changes in the central processing of nociceptive inputs.© 2021 European Pain Federation - EFIC®.

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