SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Effectiveness of Motor Imagery on Motor Recovery in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: Systematic Review.
Synthesis in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07137624 (Effects of Motor Imagery and Action Observation on Gait Initiation and Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Multiple Sclerosis), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers.
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Effects of Motor Imagery and Action Observation on Gait Initiation and Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Multiple Sclerosis
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Actual and Imagined Music-Cued Gait Training in People with Multiple Sclerosis: A Double-Blind Randomized Parallel Multicenter Trial.Neurorehabilitation and neural repair · 2024Trial
- Motor Imagery for Post-Stroke Upper Limb Recovery: A Meta-Analysis of RCTs on Fugl-Meyer Upper Extremity Scores.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Toward Brain-Computer Interface motor rehabilitation for people with Multiple Sclerosis.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Development and Validation of the Body Cognition Assessment System.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Motor imagery has a priming effect on motor execution in people with multiple sclerosis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neural oscillations during acupuncture imagery partially parallel that of real needling.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Is hypnotic assessment relevant to neurology?Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022Review
- Motor imagery and action-observation in neurorehabilitation: A study protocol in Parkinson's disease patients.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Efficacy of interoceptive and embodied rehabilitative training protocol in patients with mild multiple sclerosis: A randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Children with Cerebral Palsy can imagine actions like their normally developed peers.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Motor Imagery of Walking in People Living with and without Multiple Sclerosis: A Cross-Sectional Comparison of Mental Chronometry.Brain sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
The effects of motor imagery (MI) on functional recovery of patients with neurological pathologies, such as stroke, has been recently proven. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of MI on motor recovery and quality of life (QOL) in patients with multiple sclerosis (pwMS). A search was carried out in the following scientific databases: PubMed, CINAHL, PEDro, Scopus, Cochrane and Web of Science, up to November 2020. The grey literature and reference lists of potentially relevant articles were also searched. The Checklist for Measuring Quality and The Cochrane collaboration's tool were used to assess the methodological quality and risk of bias of the studies. Five studies were included in the systematic review. Findings showed that pwMS using MI had significant improvements in walking speed and distance, fatigue and QOL. In addition, several benefits were also found in dynamic balance and perceived walking ability. Although the evidence is limited, rehabilitation using MI with the application of musical and verbal guides (compared to non-intervention or other interventions), can produce benefits on gait, fatigue and QOL in pwMS with a low score in the Expanded Disability Status Scale.
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