Lateral Cord Magnetic Stimulation For Refractory Spastic Cerebral Palsy - Multicenter Double Blind Randomized and Controlled Trial

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a chronic and non-progressive morbid disease that affects psychomotor development, with multiple etiologies that share a common condition of acquired perinatal anomalies during development.

The manifestations are multiple and varied, with more frequent motor disorders, speech disorders, mental retardation, spasticity, dystonia, etc.. About a third of these patients have a normal IQ, for whom those signs are more disabling than for others, and for refractory speech problems there is no therapy available These subjects have generally been unsuccessfully treated with medications, botulinum toxin injections, rehabilitation or kinesic orthosis, maintaining their abnormal stable conditions at the end of childhood or early adulthood.

The rational for this clinical trial is that the author has demonstrated the reduction of the excitability threshold of the nociceptive response by electrically stimulating the lateral spinal cord in an animal model, therefore, its possible beneficial action on abnormal muscle tone, somatic motor functions and improvement of speech, by this method.

Spastic Cerebral Palsy has been chosen as a targeted population, because it use to be a chronic and irreversible condition with few therapeutic options, ineffective and frequent complications.

It is of ancient knowledge that electric currents can alter the functions of the Nervous System In the last decades there was a refinement of these techniques of stimulation, being able to emphasize especially the Transcranial or Spinal Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). This therapeutic method, developed in the eighties, is able to modulate brain activity, through the stimulation of limited cortical or spinal areas, with minimal side effects, which is applied through a coil that produces an alternating electrical current.