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Differential Neural Processing during Motor Imagery of Daily Activities in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients.
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The Effect of Motor Imagery Training on Functional Status, Body Awareness, Quality of Life, and Anxiety Levels in Mothers of Children With Physical Disabilities
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19 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Exploring the associations of cortical connectivity-modulation with clinical and psychological measures in acute low back pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- How Posture and Previous Sensorimotor Experience Influence Muscle Activity during Gait Imagery in Young Healthy Individuals.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- The effects of proprioceptive weighting changes on posture control in patients with chronic low back pain: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
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- Temporal Grading Index of Functional Network Topology Predicts Pain Perception of Patients With Chronic Back Pain.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Sling Exercise Can Drive Cortical Representation of the Transversus Abdominis and Multifidus Muscles in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Impact of enhanced recovery nursing combined with limb training on knee joint function and neurological function after total knee arthroplasty in patients with knee osteoarthritis.American journal of translational research · 2021Article
- Bidirectional alterations in ALFF across slow-5 and slow-4 frequencies in the brains of postherpetic neuralgia patients.Journal of pain research · 2019Article
- Advancing imaging technologies for patients with spinal pain: with a focus on whiplash injury.The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society · 2018Review
- Regional Homogeneity and Multivariate Pattern Analysis of Cervical Spondylosis Neck Pain and the Modulation Effect of Treatment.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018Article
- Different mechanosensory stimulations of the lower back elicit specific changes in hemodynamics and oxygenation in cortical sensorimotor areas-A fNIRS study.Brain and behavior · 2016Article
- Cortical Sensorimotor Processing of Painful Pressure in Patients with Chronic Lower Back Pain-An Optical Neuroimaging Study using fNIRS.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
- Distress Tolerance in the Comorbid Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder Population.Journal of addiction medicineArticle
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Abstract
Chronic low back pain (chronic LBP) is both debilitating for patients but also a major burden on the health care system. Previous studies reported various maladaptive structural and functional changes among chronic LBP patients on spine- and supraspinal levels including behavioral alterations. However, evidence for cortical reorganization in the sensorimotor system of chronic LBP patients is scarce. Motor Imagery (MI) is suitable for investigating the cortical sensorimotor network as it serves as a proxy for motor execution. Our aim was to investigate differential MI-driven cortical processing in chronic LBP compared to healthy controls (HC) by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Twenty-nine subjects (15 chronic LBP patients, 14 HC) were included in the current study. MI stimuli consisted of randomly presented video clips showing every-day activities involving different whole-body movements as well as walking on even ground and walking downstairs and upstairs. Guided by the video clips, subjects had to perform MI of these activities, subsequently rating the vividness of their MI performance. Brain activity analysis revealed that chronic LBP patients exhibited significantly reduced activity compared to HC subjects in MI-related brain regions, namely the left supplementary motor area and right superior temporal sulcus. Furthermore, psycho-physiological-interaction analysis yielded significantly enhanced functional connectivity (FC) between various MI-associated brain regions in chronic LBP patients indicating diffuse and non-specific changes in FC. Current results demonstrate initial findings about differences in MI-driven cortical processing in chronic LBP pointing towards reorganization processes in the sensorimotor network.
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