NCT00858910

Comparison of Embedded and Added Motor Imagery Training in Patients After Stroke

Comparison of Embedded and Added Motor Imagery Training to Improve a Motor Skill in Patients After Stroke: a Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial Using a Mixed Methods Approach

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Reha Rheinfelden · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to examine if patients in the embedded motor imagery (MI) training group (EG1) need less time to perform the motor task than patients in the added MI training group (EG2).

Detailed description

The purpose of the study is to examine if patients in the embedded MI training into physiotherapy (EG1) need less time to perform the motor task than patients in the added MI training to physiotherapy (EG2). A third groups serves a control group (CG) to investigate the effect of the intervention versus a group with a control intervention. Additionally, semi-structured interviews before and after the intervention will give an insight in the patient's experience with motor imagery (MI), their expectations regarding the intervention and their opinions about MI after the intervention.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Motor imagery (MI) training	MI training encloses the internal rehearsal of a known motor skill without any overt motor output.
OTHER	Control intervention	The control intervention encloses relaxation and breathing exercises, and information about: * the disease (stroke), * therapy options, * self-help groups and their offers for support, * helping aids for independent living at home.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-03-01
• Primary completion: 2010-05-01
• Completion: 2010-05-01
• First posted: 2009-03-10
• Last updated: 2013-10-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland