NCT03370146

Motor Imagery and Rehabilitation of Orthopaedic Patients

Can Mental Training Based on Motor Imagery Speed up the Rehabilitation of Walking? Efficacy of a Controlled Procedure and Neurofunctional Bases of Recovery in Patients With Total Knee Arthroplasty

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: I.R.C.C.S Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Motor imagery is increasingly used as a plasticity-booster to complement conventional rehabilitation. Here the investigators test the hypothesis that the combination of mental training with conventional rehabilitation may speed up the recovery in patients with total knee arthroplasty. The investigators also characterize the brain correlates of such recovery with imagery tasks for virtual reality environments.

Conditions

• Orthopedic Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mental training based on Motor Imagery	Patients of the experimental group will be instructed to imagine walking, from a first person perspective, focusing on the kinaesthetic sensations typically associated with the movement. The motor imagery training will be performed using the support of a laptop, on which there will be presented complex static scenes, representing different kind of paths with different landmarks to reach during the mental walking.
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive training	Patients of the control group 1 will undergo a general cognitive training, not based on motor imagery.
BEHAVIORAL	Evaluation of gait abilities	All the subjects included in the trial will undergo a series of behavioral test for the evaluation of gai abilities

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-03-17
• Primary completion: 2018-07-30
• Completion: 2018-10-30
• First posted: 2017-12-12
• Last updated: 2017-12-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy