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. 2022 Sep 1;11(17):5183.
doi: 10.3390/jcm11175183.

Sensory Integration Disorders in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Krystian Mross  1 , Marta Jankowska  1 , Agnieszka Meller  1 , Karolina Machowska-Sempruch  1 , Przemysław Nowacki  1 , Marta Masztalewicz  1 , Wioletta Pawlukowska  1
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Sensory Integration Disorders in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Krystian Mross et al. J Clin Med. .

Abstract

Sensory integration disorder (SID) is also called, interchangeably, sensory processing disorder (SPD). Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune, chronic, neurological disease of the central nervous system. Sensorimotor function disorders are present in both multiple sclerosis and SID. The study aimed to assess the SID among patients with MS and included 141 patients with relapse-remitting MS and 72 participants in the control group. To assess SID in both groups, a questionnaire prepared by Daniel Travis was used. Additionally, participants answered questions regarding their age, gender, handedness and in the study group about the duration of the disease, relapses in the past year and the advancement of the disease using EDSS. The occurrence of sensory seeking was significantly more frequent in the MS patients with relapses in the past year. Patients with MS had more often general disorders of sensory integration in the past. However, healthy subjects significantly more often showed the severity of social and emotional disorders in the past. Currently, the group of MS patients has a greater intensity of sensor-based motor abilities. The study revealed more severe SID in MS patients than in the control group. Still, more research is needed in this field.

Keywords: multiple sclerosis; sensory integration; sensory integration disorder; sensory processing; somatosensory sensitivity.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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