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Trial reportNeuroRehabilitation2023

Extrinsic feedback facilitates mental chronometry abilities in stroke patients.

Jana Stuerner, Aida Sehle, Joachim Liepert

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in NeuroRehabilitation, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jana StuernerDepartment of Neurological Rehabilitation, Lurija Institute, Kliniken Schmieder, Allensbach, Germany.
Aida SehleDepartment of Neurological Rehabilitation, Lurija Institute, Kliniken Schmieder, Allensbach, Germany.
Joachim LiepertDepartment of Neurological Rehabilitation, Lurija Institute, Kliniken Schmieder, Allensbach, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMotor imagery (MI) can serve as a treatment for stroke rehabilitation. MI abilities can be assessed by testing mental chronometry (MC) as the degree of conformity between imagined and real performance of a task. A good MC performance is supposed to indicate good MI capacities.

objectiveTo explore if MC abilities can be modified by extrinsic feedback in stroke patients.

methods60 subacute stroke patients were randomized into three groups. MC was evaluated by executing a modified version of the Box and Block Test (BBT) mentally and in real before and after a training session. For Groups 1 and 2 the training consisted of repeated performance of the BBT in a mental and then a real version. The time needed to complete each task was measured. Only participants of Group 1 received feedback about how well mental and real performance matched. Group 3 executed the same number of BBTs but without MI.

resultsMC ability only improved in Group 1. The improvement lasted for at least 24 hours. In all groups, BBT real performance was improved post-training.

conclusionExternal feedback was able to enhance MC capability which might be an approach for improving MI abilities.

Indexed as

StrokeStroke RehabilitationFeedbackHumansImagery, PsychotherapyPatientshemiparesisoccupational therapyStrokestroke rehabilitationupper extremity

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PMID37927280
PMCPMC10741321

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