TITLE:
Analysis of the Autonomic Regulation in a Case of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy after Ken Ware Treatment
AUTHORS:
Ken Ware, Elio Conte, Riccardo Marvulli, Giancarlo Ianieri, Marisa Megna, Enrico Pierangeli, Sergio Conte, Leonardo Mendolicchio, Flavia Pellegrino
KEYWORDS:
Autonomic Neuroscience, HRV Analysis, Ken Ware (NPT) Treatment, Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy, ANS Dysfunction
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Neuroscience,
Vol.5 No.2,
May
29,
2015
ABSTRACT: This is a study on
autonomic neuroscience. In a previous paper in[1], we studied a subject affected from
facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy before and after Ken Ware treatment (NPT).
Using the non linear methodology of the Generalized Mutual Information (GMI)
analysis of Sensory Motor Rhythm, we produced detailed results evidencing that
the mentioned NPT treatment involved a net improvement of the patient under his
subjective psychological condition, and in particular, under the neurological
and sensory motor profile. We quantified with accuracy the improvement that the
subject realized during such treatment. Of course, previous studies of several
authorshave evidenced that
muscular dystrophies are strongly linked to a profound ANS
disfunction.Therefore, the aim of the present study was to analyze the ANS of
the subject before and after the treatment. We performed analysis in time as
well as in frequency domain and by using non linearmethods. The basic result of the paper
was that, according to our analysis, the subjects startedwith a serious ANS disfunction before
the NPT treatment and that a net improvement was obtained after this therapy.
All the examined parameters resulted strongly altered before the treatment and
all they returned in the normal range after the NPT.