Global Perceptions and Utilization of Clinical Neurophysiology in Movement Disorders
Journal
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
ISSN
2330-1619
2330-1619
Date Issued
2024
Author(s)
Panagiotis Kassavetis
Robert Chen
Christos Ganos
Mark Hallett
Masashi Hamada
Anna Latorre
Pramod Kumar Pal
Petra Schwingenschuh
Marina A. Tijssen
Shabbir Merchant
Type
journal-article
Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>Clinical neurophysiology (CNP) involves the use of neurophysiological techniques to make an accurate clinical diagnosis, to quantify the severity, and to measure the treatment response. Despite several studies showing CNP to be a useful diagnostic tool in Movement Disorders (MD), its more widespread utilization in clinical practice has been limited.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Objectives</jats:title><jats:p>To better understand the current availability, global perceptions, and challenges for implementation of diagnostic CNP in the clinical practice of MD.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods</jats:title><jats:p>The International Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society (IPMDS) formed a Task Force on CNP. The Task Force distributed an online survey via email to all the members of the IPMDS between August 5 and 30, 2021. Descriptive statistics were used for analysis of the survey results. Some results are presented by IPMDS geographical sections namely PanAmerican (PAS), European (ES), African (AFR), Asian and Oceanian (AOS).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>Four hundred and ninety‐one IPMDS members (52% males), from 196 countries, responded. The majority of responders from the AFR (65%) and PAS (63%) sections had no formal training in diagnostic CNP (40% for AOS and 37% for ES). The most commonly used techniques are electroencephalography (EEG) (72%) followed by surface EMG (71%). The majority of responders think that CNP is somewhat valuable or very valuable in the assessment of MD. All the sections identified “lack of training” as one of the biggest challenges for diagnostic CNP studies in MD.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>CNP is perceived to be a useful diagnostic tool in MD. Several challenges were identified that prevent widespread utilization of CNP in MD.</jats:p></jats:sec>
Cite this document
Kassavetis, P., Chen, R., Ganos, C., Hallett, M., Hamada, M., Latorre, A., Pal, P. K., Schwingenschuh, P., Vial, F., Tijssen, M. A., & Merchant, S. (2024). Global perceptions and utilization of clinical neurophysiology in movement disorders. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, 11(4), 346-351. https://doi.org/10.1002/mdc3.13974
Subjects
clinical neurophysiology
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movement disorders
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tremor
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electromyography
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accelerometry