Trial reportNeurodegenerative disease management2017
Motor imagery of walking and walking while talking: a pilot randomized-controlled trial protocol for older adults.
Trial report in Neurodegenerative disease management, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02762604 (Motor Imagery Intervention for Improving Gait and Cognition in the Elderly), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Motor Imagery Intervention for Improving Gait and Cognition in the Elderly
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Adapting Motor Imagery Training Protocols to Surgical Education: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Surgical innovation · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of Baduanjin imagery and exercise on cognitive function in the elderly: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Trial
- From movement to mood regulation: exercise-based digital interventions using mobile health and ecological momentary assessment for mental health and cognitive function in older adults: a narrative review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Muscle activity and lower body kinematics change when performing motor imagery of gait.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Over a third of community-residing elderly have clinical gait abnormalities, and gait impairment is associated with morbidity, mortality and dementia. Motor imagery - envisioning motor actions without actual execution - has been used to improve gait in Parkinson's disease and poststroke, but the efficacy of motor imagery in healthy elderly is unknown. This single-blind pilot randomized-controlled trial aims to establish feasibility and explore the efficacy of a 3-month, telephone-based motor imagery intervention - that involves imagined walking, imagined talking and imagined walking while talking for improving gait in 48 healthy elderly. The primary outcomes will be gait speed during actual walking and walking while talking. Secondary outcomes will include cognitive performance during actual talking and walking while talking, and functional neuroplasticity during imagined walking and walking while talking. This clinical trial has been registered on clinicaltrials.gov (identifier NCT02762604).
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