REAC neurobiological treatments in acute post-traumatic knee medial collateral ligament lesion

Ana Rita Pinheiro Barcessat; Marina Nolli Bittencourt; Jose Alfredo Coelho Pereira; Alessandro Castagna; Vania Fontani; Salvatore Rinaldi

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04539

REAC neurobiological treatments in acute post-traumatic knee medial collateral ligament lesion

Heliyon. 2020 Jul 24;6(7):e04539. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04539. eCollection 2020 Jul.

Authors

Ana Rita Pinheiro Barcessat¹, Marina Nolli Bittencourt¹, Jose Alfredo Coelho Pereira², Alessandro Castagna^{3

4}, Vania Fontani^{2

3

4}, Salvatore Rinaldi^{2

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Amapá, Macapá, Brazil.
² Research Department, Rinaldi Fontani Foundation, Florence, Italy.
³ Department of Neuro Psycho Physio Pathology and Neuro Psycho Physical Optimization, Rinaldi Fontani Institute, Florence, Italy.
⁴ Department of Regenerative Medicine, Rinaldi Fontani Institute, Florence, Italy.

Abstract

Objective: Physical traumas can lead to unconscious neuropsychical alterations, which can compromise rehabilitation result and functional recovery. Aim of this interventional study is to verify if neurobiological Radio Electric Asymmetric Conveyer (REAC) treatments Neuro Postural Optimization (NPO) and Tissue Optimization (TO) are able respectively to improve neuro psychomotor strategies and facilitate recovery process in medial collateral ligaments (MCL) lesions of the knee.

Patients and methods: 45 healthy subjects, 32 males and 13 females, with knee MCL lesion, diagnosed with MRI or ultrasound. Within 4 days after the trauma, subjects were clinically evaluated (T0), both through medical and subjective assessments. Clinical evaluation was repeated after the REAC NPO treatment (T1) and at the end of 18 REAC TO treatments (T2) and at the 30 days follow-up (T3).

Results: In comparison with the results commonly found in clinical practice, all REAC treated patients recovered much faster. They reported functional recovery, pain relief and joint stability, regardless of the severity of the lesion.

Conclusion: The combined use of REAC NPO and TO can envisage a new rehabilitative approach, which aims not only at recovering the outcomes of the physical trauma, but also at improving the neuropsychical state that can condition the rehabilitation result.

Keywords: Behavioral medicine; Clinical research; Evidence-based medicine; Functional recovery; Health sciences; Knee; Medial collateral ligament; Musculoskeletal system; Psychomotor performance.