Disruption of cortical synaptic homeostasis in individuals with chronic low back pain

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Thapa, Tribikram, Graven-Nielsen, Thomas, Chipchase, Lucinda S. and Schabrun, Siobhan M.. (2018). Disruption of cortical synaptic homeostasis in individuals with chronic low back pain. Clinical Neurophysiology. 129(5), pp. 1090-1096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2018.01.060
AuthorsThapa, Tribikram, Graven-Nielsen, Thomas, Chipchase, Lucinda S. and Schabrun, Siobhan M.
Abstract

Objective
Homeostatic plasticity mechanisms regulate synaptic plasticity in the human brain. Impaired homeostatic plasticity may contribute to maladaptive synaptic plasticity and symptom persistence in chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Methods
We examined homeostatic plasticity in fifty individuals with chronic low back pain (cLBP) and twenty-five pain-free controls. A single block (7-min) of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (‘single tDCS’), or two subsequent blocks (7-min and 5-min separated by 3-min rest; ‘double tDCS’), were randomised across two experimental sessions to confirm an excitatory response to tDCS applied alone, and evaluate homeostatic plasticity, respectively. Corticomotor excitability was assessed in the corticomotor representation of the first dorsal interosseous muscle by transcranial magnetic stimulation-induced motor evoked potentials (MEPs) recorded before and 0, 10, 20, and 30-min following each tDCS protocol.

Results
Compared with baseline, MEP amplitudes increased at all time points in both groups following the single tDCS protocol (P < 0.003). Following the double tDCS protocol, MEP amplitudes decreased in pain-free controls at all time points compared with baseline (P < 0.01), and were unchanged in the cLBP group.

Conclusion
These data indicate impaired homeostatic plasticity in the primary motor cortex of individuals with cLBP.

Significance
Impaired homeostatic plasticity could explain maladaptive synaptic plasticity and symptom persistence in cLBP.

Keywordschronic low back pain; homeostatic plasticity; human; musculoskeletal pain; transcranial magnetic stimulation
Year2018
JournalClinical Neurophysiology
Journal citation129 (5), pp. 1090-1096
PublisherElsevier B.V.
ISSN1388-2457
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2018.01.060
Scopus EID2-s2.0-85042161802
Research or scholarlyResearch
Page range1090-1096
FunderNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Danish National Research Foundation
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Output statusPublished
Publication dates
Online09 Feb 2018
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Accepted08 Jan 2018
Deposited18 Aug 2022
Grant ID1105040
DNRF121
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