Postoperative rehabilitation after deep brain stimulation surgery for movement disorders

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is highly effective for the treatment of movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease (PD) (Timmermann et al., 2015a), tremor (Oliveria et al., 2017) and dystonia (Volkmann et al., 2014), but also further neurologic and psychiatric disorders (Welter et al., 2017). During DBS, continuous electrical stimulation is applied in appropriate subcortical areas to achieve clinical improvement of disabling symptoms. The unique feature of this therapeutic approach is the ability to preferentially modulate, through the choice of stimulation site, specific cerebral networks.

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