Motor Imagery and Action Observation on Lumbar Motor Variables

Motor Activity Clinical Trial

Official title:

Efficacy of an Intensive Exercise Program Combined With Training on Action Observation and Motor Imagery for Improving Lumbopelvic Motor Control and Strengthening Trunk Muscles: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03902847
• Other study ID #: 5
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: April 2019
• Source: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Motor imagery is defined as a dynamic mental process of an action, without its real motor execution. Action observation evokes an internal, real-time motor simulation of the movements that the observer is perceiving visually. Both MI and AO have been shown to produce a neurophysiological activation of the brain areas related to the planning and execution of voluntary movement in a similar manner how the real action.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 45
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: May 30, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

The inclusion criteria were as follows:

• asymptomatic participants

• men and women aged 18 to 65 years.

Exclusion Criteria:

The exclusion criteria included the following:

• participants who had any knowledge of Physical Therapy or Occupational Therapy

• underage participants

• participants with any symptomatology in the lumbo-pelvic region at the time of the study -participants with lumbo-pelvic pain in at least the prior six months

• subjects who have been treated for lumbo-pelvic pain in the previous 6 months

• participants with any type of neurological disease.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Motor Activity

Intervention

Behavioral:
• motor imagery
All subjects had to imagine that he/she was performing each exercise during 1 set of 12 repetitions prior to the real execution of this. During the second phase (the second and third week), subjects had to complete the set both imagining, with visual mental motor imagery, and actively performing the exercises.
• Action observation
A video was shown in third-person perspective. All subjects watched one person performing each exercise during 1 set of 12 repetitions. During the second phase (the second and third week), subjects had to perform actively the exercises while they watched the video.
• Motor Control Exercises
The subjects were asked to perform 3 sets, of 10-12 repetitions each six exercise, with a total duration of approximately 30-35 minutes. The exercises program had to do it once a day, 6 days a week, for 3 weeks.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	CSEU La Salle	Madrid

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Changes in the Right Lumbo-pelvic motor control	Lumbar motor control will be measured by a pressure biofeedback called Stabilizer TM. The measurement protocol in the following procedure; The patient should be supine position with the Stabilizer TM placed in the lumbar region with an initial pressure of 70 mmHg. Then, the patient will be asked to flex the hip and knee at 90 ° with one leg and then with the opposite one. It is a validated and reliable protocol for motor control of the lumbar region	1 week and 3 weeks
Primary	Changes in the Left Lumbo-pelvic motor control	Lumbar motor control will be measured by a pressure biofeedback called Stabilizer TM. The measurement protocol in the following procedure; The patient should be supine position with the Stabilizer TM placed in the lumbar region with an initial pressure of 70 mmHg. Then, the patient will be asked to flex the hip and knee at 90 ° with one leg and then with the opposite one. It is a validated and reliable protocol for motor control of the lumbar region	1 week and 3 weeks
Secondary	Perceived fatigue: changes in the Visual Analogue Scale-fatigue mid-intervention	Perceived fatigue will be measured with Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). The VAS consists of a 100-mm line, the left side of which represents "no fatigue" whereas the right side represents "maximal fatigue"	1 week and 3 weeks.
Secondary	Changes in the trunk muscles strength	The strength of the lumbar region will be measured by a foot dynamometer (Takei TM 5420). The patient should stand on the dynamometer platform with knees extended, elbows extended, hips bent and index fingers holding the bar at knee height. Starting from this position the subject will have to make a previous adjustment of contraction of the musculature of the lumbar region and must perform a movement of lumbar extension. Subjects should maintain contraction for 3 seconds. It is a valid and reliable test to measure the muscular strength of the lumbar region	1 week and 3 weeks.