HSC Lab and international collaborators publish on new treatment for cervical dystonia

Jürgen Konczak, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Human Sensorimotor Control (HSC) Lab, along with former lab members Jiapeng Xu, PhD, and Jinseok Oh, PhD, 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, collaborated to publish a new treatment for cervical dystonia. Their 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, providing first systematic evidence that cervical VTS can induce fast-acting improvements in abnormal head posture in patients with cervical dystonia.