NCT02761447

Effectivity of Motor Imagery and MirrorTherapy in Amputees

Effectivity of Differences Therapies on Central Nerve System for Pain, Phantom, Disability and Quality of Life in Amputees

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Almeria · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the effectiveness of imagery motor on phantom pain and amputation process

Detailed description

The expected increase in the number of amputations in the coming decades requires special attention to the common effect after called phantom limb amputation. That term refers to the phenomena covering the sensations that occur in the affected limb and whose prevalence rate is an important part of amputees subjects. Developed theories about their origin focus their attention on the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. Thus, the imaginary movement is a complex cognitive, sensory and proprioceptive process leading to a mental representation of movement and it is a widely used technique in neurological rehabilitation and complex pain syndrome.

Conditions

• Amputees

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Treatment Traditional and Imaginary Motor Program	Amputees patients also conservative protocol will undergo physiotherapy techniques work Imaginary Motor. The first video will include two sequences of a harmonic gear that will allow the patient to examine, with the physiotherapist, the characteristics of the different body segments involved in locomotion and place the member in space. The second video include an analysis in five phases: a) relaxation of Benson, b) phase external imagination where cycles of normal running on a video provided by the physiotherapist, c) phase internal imagination where the patient will identify the problem discussed compared with the normal course presented in the video, d) recreation of images in the first person made an e normalized locomotion) closing his eyes, prompted the patient to mentally recreate sequences normal gait and analyzed and subsequently verbalize differences of these with respect to their own way of getting around.
OTHER	Treatment Traditional and Mirror Therapy	Amputees patients also conservative protocol will undergo physiotherapy techniques mirror therapy work. The protocol will consist of mirror therapy sessions three days a week (25-30 minutes) for a month, where participants will move the intact limb looking in the mirror and imagining the movement of the limb with phantom sensation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2019-06-01
• Completion: 2019-10-01
• First posted: 2016-05-04
• Last updated: 2019-10-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain