NCT03959449

Action Observation and Motor Imagery Induced Hypoalgesia in Asymptomatic Subjects

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the influence of motor imagery and the observation of actions on pain perception. Participants in this study are asymptomatic subjects who will perform an IM and AO protocol of an aerobic exercise.

Detailed description

Motor Imagery (MI) is defined as a dynamic mental process that involves the representation of an action, in an internal way, without its actual motor execution. The Action Observation (AO) evokes an internal, real-time motor simulation of the movements that the observer is perceiving visually. Both mental processes trigger the activation of the neurocognitive mechanisms that underlie the planning and execution of voluntary movements in a manner that resembles how the action is performed in a real manner. The phenomenon of exercise-induced hypoalgesia is well known. This is why it has been suggested that these techniques could produce pain modulation similar to that produced by real exercise.

Conditions

• Analgesia
• Exercise

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Action Observation plus motor imagery	Action observation (video) and motor imagery of running.
BEHAVIORAL	Motor imagery	Motor imagery of running
BEHAVIORAL	Exercise plus action Observation and motor imagery	Real exercise of running during 6 min plus action observation (video) and motor imagery of running.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-06-05
• Primary completion: 2019-06-30
• Completion: 2019-07-15
• First posted: 2019-05-22
• Last updated: 2019-07-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain