Trial reportComplementary therapies in medicine2019
"Will you draw me a pelvis?ˮ Dynamic neuro-cognitive imagery improves pelvic schema and graphic-metric representation in people with Parkinson's Disease: A randomized controlled trial.
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- Physical Therapist Management of Parkinson Disease: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American Physical Therapy Association.Physical therapy · 2022Guideline
- Variability of motor imagery in children with cerebral palsy examined using the Hand Laterality Test.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2026Article
- Action Observation and Motor Imagery as a Treatment in Patients with Parkinson's Disease.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2024Review
- Mental imagery for addressing mechanisms underlying motor impairments in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
- Narrative medicine pinpoints loss of autonomy and stigma in Parkinson's disease.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2023Article
- Looking beyond the binary: an extended paradigm for focus of attention in human motor performance.Experimental brain research · 2021Review
- The Role of Mental Imagery in Parkinson's Disease Rehabilitation.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Dynamic Neuro-Cognitive Imagery (DNIFrontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundBody schema (i.e., the mental representations of the body), vital for motor and cognitive functions, is often distorted in people with Parkinson's disease (PD). Deficits in body, and especially pelvic, schema can further exacerbate motor and cognitive deficits associated with PD. Such deficits, including those in graphic and metric misjudgments, can manifest in drawing tasks. Mental imagery is a recommended approach for PD rehabilitation with potential for ameliorating body schema.
objectiveTo investigate the effect of a two-week dynamic neuro-cognitive imagery (DNI) training versus in-home learning and exercise control (learning/exercise) on pelvic schema and graphic representation (i.e., drawing height and width).
designTwenty participants with idiopathic PD (Hoehn&Yahr I-III; M age: 65.75 ± 10.13) were randomly allocated into either a DNI or a learning/exercise group. Participants were asked to complete the "Draw Your Pelvisˮ test in which they drew their pelvis at pre- and post-intervention. Drawings were assessed for pelvic schema score and drawing dimensions (i.e., height and weight).
interventionDNI anatomical and metaphorical imagery focusing on pelvic anatomy and biomechanics.
resultsNo difference (p > .05) was detected at baseline between drawn pelvis height and width. Following intervention, improvements were greater in the DNI group for pelvic schema (p < .01), drawn pelvic width (p < .05) and width-height difference (p < .05).
conclusionsThis study suggests that DNI could serve as a rehabilitation path for improving body schema in people with PD. Future studies should explore DNI mechanisms of effect and the effect of enhanced pelvic schema on motor and non-motor deficits in this population.
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