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Mental Imagery Enhances Proprioception in Patients With Low Back Pain

NCT01469949 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 55

Last updated 2011-11-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Mental imagery has been used in a variety of pathological instances in support to classical therapeutic treatments. The aim of the present study was to observe the effect of internal Kinesthetic and external Visual Imagery to improve proprioceptive feedback in low back pain. Fifty-five subjects with a history of low back pain were included in two experimental groups who used mental imagery and one control group who did not. The results showed the effectiveness of the Internal Kinesthetic Imagery to improve the accuracy of repositioning of lumbo-sacral spine that may subsequently improve the quality of the proprioceptive input. The possibility to use effectively mental imagery, as a part of proprioceptive rehabilitation process, is the principal outcome of this study.

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Watching or imagining movement

Mental imagery are administered in two forms : kinesthetic when subjects imagine the movement of flexion and extension of the lumbar spine and Visual when subjects watch a video of a third person doing the flexion and extension movement

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Lebanese University

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-05-31
Primary Completion
2011-06-30
Completion
2011-07-31

Countries

  • Lebanon

Study Locations

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