ArticleBrain sciences2024
Mirror Therapy Reduces Pain and Preserves Corticomotor Excitability in Human Experimental Skeletal Muscle Pain.
Article in Brain sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07380958 (Mirror Therapy as an Adjunct to Rehabilitation Following Total Knee Arthroplasty), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Mirror Therapy as an Adjunct to Rehabilitation Following Total Knee Arthroplasty
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of robot assisted mirror therapy on motor function and cortical activation in patients with right hemisphere damage.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Looking Inwards: The Role of Self-Care, Self-Management and Self-Healing in Musculoskeletal Pain.Musculoskeletal care · 2025Article
- Pain-Induced changes in corticospinal excitability are associated with adaptive changes in muscle coordination.Neurobiology of pain (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
Approaches to preserve corticomotor excitability (CE) are attracting interest as a treatment for pain-induced changes in neural plasticity. We determined the effects of mirror therapy (MT) on skeletal muscle pain. Fifteen healthy adults who received hypertonic saline injections (5.8% NaCl, 0.2 mL) into the first dorsal interosseous (FDI) muscle of the right hand to induce experimental skeletal muscle pain were assigned to either the "MT and injection" or "injection only" group. Post-injection, the "MT and injection" group observed their left index finger abducting and adducting for 4 min, creating the illusion that the right index finger was moving. The "injection only" group remained at rest. CE and pain were assessed by measuring motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) of the right FDI triggered by transcranial magnetic stimulation and the numerical rating scale (NRS), respectively. MEP amplitudes were significantly higher in the "MT and injection" group, a trend that persisted post-MT intervention (MT intervention;
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