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Motor Imagery Practice in Neurological Rehabilitation

NCT00618085 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2009-05-04

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Summary

Motor imagery is a technique widely used in learning skills. Its effectiveness has been proven in various sports and in musicians. A recent review (Braun et al. 2006) suggested that this technique may also be effective in rehabilitation of patients with neurological disease or damage, but that further research was needed.

The main purpose of this research is to discover whether motor imagery practice is beneficial in the rehabilitation of skills in patients who have some disability due to neurological disease or damage. The principal research question is: are physiotherapy and occupational therapy given incorporating motor imagery more effective than standard care (i.e., the same therapies but without integrated motor imagery) in re-training task specific performance for patients with neurological disease or damage?

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Motor imagery practice

During motor imagery practice a person imagines performing a skill or movement with all its sensory consequences without actually moving. In this study the therapists follow a motor imagery guideline designed for rehabilitation of skills and movement performance in subjects with neurological disease or damage. The guideline offers therapists structure and a strategy to deliver subject-specific imagery. The guideline is based on three major frameworks, namely; principles of motor learning, phased process of human movement and a training guide for sports coaches and performers from the National Coaching Foundation.

OTHER

Standard physiotherapy and occupational therapy

Patients with neurological disease or damage will receive standard physiotherapy and occupational therapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Oxford Brookes University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thamar J Bovend'Eerdt, MSc · Oxford Centre for Enablement

  • Derick T Wade, MD · Oxford Centre for Enablement

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-02-29
Primary Completion
2009-04-30
Completion
2009-04-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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