- Title
- Motor imagery for peripheral injury (letter)
- Creator
- Moseley, G. Lorimer; Barnett, Chris
- Relation
- Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Vol. 90, Issue 8, p. 1443
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2009.06.006
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Stenekes et al [Stenekes MW, Geertzen JH, Nicolai J-P, De Jong BM, Mulder T. Effects of motor imagery on hand function during immobilization after flexor tendon repair. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2009;90:553-9] have reported an important result - that a motor imagery program during the first 6 weeks after flexor tendon repair limited the impact of hand immobilization on preparation time for finger movements. Robust randomized controlled trials of motor imagery are rare and the authors should be congratulated on a disciplined study that contributes significantly to the literature. That they did not observe an effect on subjective or physical measures of hand function might lead one to presume that motor imagery is not worth doing. However, a growing body of literature demonstrating that motor imagery aids functional recovery after peripheral injury, suggests several reasons to conclude otherwise.
- Subject
- motor imagery; hand function; peripheral injury; recovery
- Identifier
- uon:8130
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/916857
- Identifier
- ISSN:0003-9993
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