Smania, Nicola and Colosimo, Carlo and Bentivoglio, Anna Rita and Sandrini, Giorgio and Picelli, Alessandro (2013) Use of botulinum toxin type A in the management of patients with neurological disorders: a national survey. Functional Neurology, 28 (4). pp. 253-258. ISSN 1971-3274
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Abstract
The aim of this survey was to provide an overview of important issues relating to therapeutic strategies based on botulinum toxin type A injection for the treatment of patients with neurological disorders. Two hundred and ten physicians from neurology and neurorehabilitation units in Italian hospitals answered a questionnaire exploring some clinical aspects of the use of botulinum toxin type A in patients with spasticity/dystonia. 66% of the physicians treated patients with dystonia, 80% treated adults with spasticity, and 35% treated children with cerebral palsy. Palpation with no instrumental guidance was the injection technique most commonly used for treating patients with dystonia, spasticity and cerebral palsy; 57% of the physicians evaluated patients instrumentally before toxin injection, while 45% assessed post-injection improvements by instrumental means; 78% of the physicians prescribed (when appropriate) rehabilitation procedures after toxin injection. Our results seem to show that the routine use of botulinum toxin in clinics is far from standardized.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | botulinum toxin, cerebral palsy, dystonia, injection, spasticity, survey |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Dec 2015 13:06 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2015 13:06 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/10928 |
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