Vries, A. de (Astrid) (2011) Predictors of decreased motor imagery ability in stroke patients: a first glance. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.
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Abstract
Objective: To investigate what patients' characteristics are related to a decreased motor imagery ability. Specific attention was paid to the relation between motor imagery and motor function. Methods: Ten stroke patients (three weeks post stroke) as well as ten matched control subjects performed an implicit motor imagery task. In patients, arm and hand function was assessed with several tasks: the Utrecht Arm/hand test, the Fugi-Meyer scale and the active range of motion of the affected arm. The performance on the motor imagery task was correlated with the scores on the motor function measures and to other patient characteristics like lesion side and site, gender and handedness. Results: Motor imagery was the most related with the specific lesion site. No convincing results were found for a relation between motor imagery and motor function. Conclusion: Based on our results we conclude that the most determinate factor for motor imagery capacity is the specific lesion site. It is important not to exclude patients with left sided lesions from a possible motor imagery therapy because they can still have motor imagery capacities. Upper extremity motor functioning seems to have no strong relation with the motor imagery ability.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Thesis) |
|---|---|
| Supervisor name: | Otten, Egbert |
| Supervisor name: | Tepper, Marga and UMCG center for rehabilitation Beatrixoord |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jun 2020 10:54 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2020 10:54 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1453 |
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