AUTHOR=Kourtidou-Papadeli Chrysoula , Frantzidis Christos A. , Bakirtzis Christos , Petridou Anatoli , Gilou Sotiria , Karkala Aliki , Machairas Ilias , Kantouris Nikolaos , Nday Christiane M. , Dermitzakis Emmanouil V. , Bakas Eleftherios , Mougios Vassilis , Bamidis Panagiotis D. , Vernikos Joan TITLE=Therapeutic Benefits of Short-Arm Human Centrifugation in Multiple Sclerosis–A New Approach JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neurology VOLUME=12 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurology/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.746832 DOI=10.3389/fneur.2021.746832 ISSN=1664-2295 ABSTRACT=
Short-arm human centrifugation (SAHC) is proposed as a robust countermeasure to treat deconditioning and prevent progressive disability in a case of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. Based on long-term physiological knowledge derived from space medicine and missions, artificial gravity training seems to be a promising physical rehabilitation approach toward the prevention of musculoskeletal decrement due to confinement and inactivity. So, the present study proposes a novel infrastructure based on SAHC to investigate the hypothesis that artificial gravity ameliorates the degree of disability. The patient was submitted to a 4-week training programme including three weekly sessions of 30 min of intermittent centrifugation at 1.5–2