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Motor Imagery Practice on Amputees (MIPA)

NCT03125538 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2017-04-28

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Summary

Motor imagery practice (MIP), which is the repeated internal representation of a movement without engaging its physical execution and which shares a neurofunctional equivalence with physical practice, has been show to contribute to promote motor recovery and pain alleviation. Despite the extensive body of evidence concerning MIP therapeutic effects, the impact of mental training during lower-limb amputees' rehabilitation process remains to be investigated. This study was designed to assess MIP effects on the relearning of walking and the frequency and intensity of phantom-limb pain among acute lower-limb amputees. Data should contribute to scale up the tools made available to therapists and extend the scope of MIP application. Moreover, results may contribute to directly provide patients recovering from a lower-limb amputation with a cost-effective and adaptable technique that could considerably improve their quality of life.

Conditions

  • Rehabilitation

Interventions

OTHER

Motor Imagery

Together with physical rehabilitation performed with physiotherapists, participants from the experimental group will mentally rehearse 3 different locomotor exercises that they already physically performed beforehand. Exercise 1: 10m Walk Exercise 2: Timed Up and Go test (rise up from a chair, walk 3 meters, turn around, come back to the chair, turn around and sit down) Exercise 3: Stairs climbing test (climb up 4 stairs, turn around, climb down the for stairs) Two min of MIP will be scheduled 5 times/day, during rest periods, so that patients complete 10min of MIP per day.

OTHER

Control Task

Together with physical rehabilitation performed with physiotherapists, participants from the control group will spend equivalent time focusing on a cognitive task without impact on motor rehabilitation ((word scramble game). Two min of this cognitive task will be scheduled 5 times/day, during rest periods, so that patients complete 10min of control task per day.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Aymeric Guillot, Professor · Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-02-25
Primary Completion
2017-10-30
Completion
2017-10-30

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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