Glucose Metabolic Changes in the Brain and Muscles of Patients with Nonspecific Neck Pain Treated by Spinal Manipulation Therapy: A [F]FDG PET Study

Overview

Journal Evid Based Complement Alternat Med

Specialty Rehabilitation Medicine

Date 2017 Feb 8

PMID 28167971

Citations 4

Authors

Akie Inami

Takeshi Ogura

Shoichi Watanuki

Md Mehedi Masud

Katsuhiko Shibuya

Masayasu Miyake

Rin Matsuda

Kotaro Hiraoka

Masatoshi Itoh

Arlan W Fuhr

Kazuhiko Yanai

Manabu Tashiro

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Abstract

. The aim of this study was to investigate changes in brain and muscle glucose metabolism that are not yet known, using positron emission tomography with [F]fluorodeoxyglucose ([F]FDG PET). . Twenty-one male volunteers were recruited for the present study. [F]FDG PET scanning was performed twice on each subject: once after the spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) intervention (treatment condition) and once after resting (control condition). We performed the SMT intervention using an adjustment device. Glucose metabolism of the brain and skeletal muscles was measured and compared between the two conditions. In addition, we measured salivary amylase level as an index of autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity, as well as muscle tension and subjective pain intensity in each subject. . Changes in brain activity after SMT included activation of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, cerebellar vermis, and somatosensory association cortex and deactivation of the prefrontal cortex and temporal sites. Glucose uptake in skeletal muscles showed a trend toward decreased metabolism after SMT, although the difference was not significant. Other measurements indicated relaxation of cervical muscle tension, decrease in salivary amylase level (suppression of sympathetic nerve activity), and pain relief after SMT. . Brain processing after SMT may lead to physiological relaxation via a decrease in sympathetic nerve activity.

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