Konczak lab and international collaborators publish on new treatment for cervical dystonia

The results of a large international, multi-center clinical trial on using vibro-tactile stimulation (VTS) as a neuromodulation method to treat the symptoms of people with cervical dystonia have been published in the journal Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. The study was a collaboration of HSCL director Jürgen Konczak, together with former lab members Jiapeng Xu and Jinseok Oh, colleagues at the University of Minnesota Department of Preventive Medicine and Rehabilitation, and clinical researchers in neurology at the University of Calgary, the University of Genova and the University of Rome in Italy. The study provides first systematic evidence that cervical VTS can induce fast-acting improvements in abnormal head posture in patients with cervical dystonia.