Recovery of Motor Imagery Ability in Stroke Patients
Joint Authors
Otten, Bert
de Vries, Sjoerd
Tepper, Marga
Mulder, Theo
Source
Rehabilitation Research and Practice
Issue
Vol. 2011, Issue 2011 (31 Dec. 2011), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2011-04-05
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Objective.
To investigate whether motor imagery ability recovers in stroke patients and to see what the relationship is between different types of imagery and motor functioning after stroke.
Methods.
12 unilateral stroke patients were measured at 3 and 6 weeks poststroke on 3 mental imagery tasks.
Arm-hand function was evaluated using the Utrecht Arm-Hand task and the Brunnström Fugl-Meyer Scale.
Age-matched healthy individuals (N=10) were included as controls.
Results.
Implicit motor imagery ability and visual motor imagery ability improved significantly at 6 weeks compared to 3 weeks poststroke.
Conclusion.
Our study shows that motor imagery can recover in the first weeks after stroke.
This indicates that a group of patients who might not be initially selected for mental practice can, still later in the rehabilitation process, participate in mental practice programs.
Moreover, our study shows that mental imagery modalities can be differently affected in individual patients and over time.
American Psychological Association (APA)
de Vries, Sjoerd& Tepper, Marga& Otten, Bert& Mulder, Theo. 2011. Recovery of Motor Imagery Ability in Stroke Patients. Rehabilitation Research and Practice،Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-9.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
de Vries, Sjoerd…[et al.]. Recovery of Motor Imagery Ability in Stroke Patients. Rehabilitation Research and Practice No. 2011 (2011), pp.1-9.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
de Vries, Sjoerd& Tepper, Marga& Otten, Bert& Mulder, Theo. Recovery of Motor Imagery Ability in Stroke Patients. Rehabilitation Research and Practice. 2011. Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-9.
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Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-460225