Publications by authors named "Britt Schuurman"
Non-pharmacological treatments such as electroencephalogram (EEG) neurofeedback have become more important in multidisciplinary approaches to treat chronic pain. The aim of this scoping review is to identify the literature on the effects of EEG neurofeedback in reducing pain complaints in adult chronic-pain patients and to elaborate on the neurophysiological rationale for using specific frequency bands as targets for EEG neurofeedback. A pre-registered scoping review was set up and reported following the guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR).
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- Laparoscopic uterosacral ligament suspension (LUSLS) is a surgical method designed to treat apical pelvic organ prolapse (POP) by tightening the uterosacral ligaments.
- A systematic review of 13 studies involving 933 patients indicated a high anatomic success rate of 90%, with even higher rates when combined with hysterectomy.
- The procedure shows a low complication rate of 1% and a subjective cure rate of 90.5%, but the authors call for more long-term and randomized studies to validate these results.
Background And Aim: Identifying EEG brain markers might yield better mechanistic insights into how chronic pain develops and could be treated. An existing longitudinal EEG study gave us the opportunity to determine whether the development of pain is accompanied by less alpha power-ie, a "relaxed" brain state-and vice versa.
Methods: Five-minute resting EEG with the eyes open was measured 2 times in 95 subjects at T0 (baseline) and T1 (6 months later).