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Implicit motor imagery performance is impaired in people with chronic, but not acute, neck pain.
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- Trunk Laterality Judgement in Chronic Low Back Pain: Influence of Low Back Pain History, Task Complexity, and Clinical Correlates.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- The impact of thermal and auditory unpleasant stimulus on explicit motor imagery in healthy individuals: An experimental study.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Implicit Motor Imagery for Chronic Pelvic Pain: A Cross-Sectional Case-Control Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Effects of the Practice of Movement Representation Techniques in People Undergoing Knee and Hip Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Neck Muscle Vibration Alters Upper Limb Proprioception as Demonstrated by Changes in Accuracy and Precision during an Elbow Repositioning Task.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Distorted body schema after mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction: a 4-month follow up study.PeerJ · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundPeople with chronic neck pain have impaired proprioception (i.e., sense of neck position). It is unclear whether this impairment involves disruptions to the proprioceptive representation in the brain, peripheral factors, or both. Implicit motor imagery tasks, namely left/right judgements of body parts, assess the integrity of the proprioceptive represention. Previous studies evaluating left/right neck judgements in people with neck pain are conflicting. We conducted a large online study to comprehensively address whether people with neck pain have altered implicit motor imagery performance.
methodsPeople with and without neck pain completed online left/right
resultsA total of 1,404 participants were recruited: 105 reported acute neck pain and 161 reported chronic neck pain. When grouped on neck pain status, people with chronic neck pain were less accurate than people without neck pain (
conclusionsThere is evidence of impaired implicit motor imagery performance in people with chronic neck pain, which may suggest disruptions to proprioceptive representation of the neck. These disruptions seem specific to the neck (performance on hand images intact) but non-specific to the exact location of neck pain.
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