Functional and Neuroprotective Effects of Restoring Lower Limb Sensation after Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

糖尿病周围神经病变后恢复下肢感觉的功能和神经保护作用

• 批准号: 10390351
• 负责人: RONALD J TRIOLO
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10390351
• 关键词: Address; Adverse event; Affect; Amputation; Amputees; Anatomy; Attention; Biomechanics; Blood Circulation; Blood flow; Charge; Chronic; Chronic Disease; Clinical; Clinical Trials; Communities; Complication; Cutaneous; Diabetes Mellitus; Diagnosis; Disease; Distal; Electrodes; Enrollment; Environment; Equilibrium; Equipment and supply inventories; Esthesia; Exhibits; Feasibility Studies; Feedback; Fiber; Floor; Frequencies; Funding; Gait; General Population; Goals; Health; Home; Immunologics; Impaired healing; Implant; Individual; Intervention; Intuition; Joints; Knee; Laboratories; Length; Limb structure; Location; Lower Extremity; Measures; Mechanics; Medical; Nerve; Operative Surgical Procedures; Oxygen; Pain; Participant; Pattern; Perception; Perfusion; Peripheral Nerves; Peripheral Nervous System Diseases; Personal Satisfaction; Phantom Limb Pain; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Physiological; Population; Prosthesis; Psychophysics; Recording of previous events; Regulation; Reporting; Risk; Sensory; Severities; Site; Skin; Spatial Distribution; Surgical incisions; System; Temperature; Thigh structure; Time; Tissue Viability; Tissues; Translating; Veterans; Walking; Weight; afferent nerve; daily functioning; design; diabetic; fear of falling; foot; functional outcomes; gait examination; high risk; implantation; improved; improved mobility; innovation; limb amputation; limb loss; neural stimulation; neuroprosthesis; novel; preimplantation; pressure; prosthesis wearer; prosthetic socket; recruit; relating to nervous system; residual limb; residual limb health; resilience; restoration; satisfaction; sciatic nerve; sensory input; volunteer; wireless

Thus project addresses a gap in the available interventions for Veterans with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN), a large and growing chronic disease population within the VHA. Individuals with diabetes have a 10-times higher risk of amputations than the general population. We expect that discrete, meaningful sensations perceived to be arising from the missing foot can be chronically elicited by multi-contact peripheral nerve cuff electrodes installed on the nerves in the thigh above the knee of Veterans with lower-limb loss due to DPN. We anticipate that these electrically elicited sensations can maintain the health and resiliency of the residual limb and provide meaningful feedback during daily activities. We will rigorously document medical and medication history, and the interactions of the ongoing disease with the implanted components, and expect them to be well tolerated by volunteers with minimal clinical complications. Amputees pay less attention to their feet, are at risk for complications affecting the skin and underlying tissues of their residual limb due to routine prosthetic socket use. We expect that eliciting sensation perceived as arising from the missing foot via neural stimulation will improve the health of the residual limb tissues of Veterans with limb loss due to DPN, and make them more resilient to potentially damaging loads. That is, circulation and residual limb tissue health will improve, and the likelihood of developing complications will decrease with the restoration of appropriate sensation. Therefore, physiological measures of blood flow, temperature, transcutaneous oxygen and other indicators of underlying tissue health, as well as the and frequency and severity of phantom pain will change as a result of this unique intervention. The sensations perceived as related to physical interactions of the prosthesis with the environment elicited with neural stimulation will also improve standing balance, walking mechanics, and overall confidence and activity levels of Veterans with lower-limb loss due to DPN. Standing balance and sway, and the ability to adapt to challenging or changing environments, as well as subjective assessments of attention, balance confidence and fear of falling measured with and without sensory stimulation. We further anticipate that recipients of our Sensory Neuroprosthesis who have DPN will find it valuable in the home and community as evidenced by patterns of usage, total standing and walking time, and subjective ratings of satisfaction and effort. We expect users to have increased mobility, and cope more effectively with disturbances to gait and balance. We will recruit and enroll a total of five new participants who will receive the surgically implanted systems, and act as their own historical (pre- and post-implantation) and concurrent (with and without sensory stimulation) controls. The Sensory Neuroprosthesis previously developed by our group for traumatic trans-tibial amputees consisting of a wireless pressure sensitive insole and external neural stimulator will be adapted for the unique clinical needs of Veterans with DPN to deliver stimulation to the nerve via selected nerve electrode contacts at the appropriate intensity corresponding to physical input to the foot. The successful completion of this project will yield the information required to define the requirements for the design of a self-contained system for Veterans with limb loss due to DPN that will be suitable for larger scale clinical trials or commercially-sponsored projects.

因此，该项目解决了糖尿病退伍军人可用干预措施的空白