Predictors of Motor İmagery Performance in Cerebral Palsy

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Implicit motor imagery: Implicit motor imagery is the ability to engage with the projection and manipulation of the body schema from a first-person perspective. Implicit motor imagery skills were evaluated Recognize App Recognize Hand Hand Laterality Task with, developed by NOI group. (http://www.noigroup.com/ Recognise).

Explicit motor imagery: In explicit motor imagery, the person simulates a specific motor movement, that is, the individual is aware that she is imagining the movement.Explicit motor imagery skills were evaluated with Movement Imagery Questionnaire for Children (MIQ-C), mental chronometry and box block test.

Study summary

There are very few studies in the literature examining the effect of age on motor imagery ability in children with cerebral palsy. To our knowledge, no studies have investigated the impact of other related factors. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of age, sex, body mass index, Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) level, and Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) level on motor imagery abilities in children with cerebral palsy.

H1-1: Age has an effect on motor imagery abilities in children with cerebral palsy.

H1-2: Sex has an effect on motor imagery abilities in children with cerebral palsy.

H1-3: Clinical type has an effect on motor imagery abilities in children with cerebral palsy.

H1-4: Body mass index has an effect on motor imagery abilities in children with cerebral palsy.

H1-5: GMFCS level has an effect on motor imagery abilities in children with cerebral palsy.

H1-6: MACS level has an effect on motor imagery abilities in children with cerebral palsy.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Explicit motor imagery -1 — 2 years
  Box and block test,Participants were first asked to pass the maximum number of wooden blocks to the other side of the wooden box in 60 seconds, three times for each hand. The actual number of movement blocks was obtained by calculating the average of 3 applications. Then, each participant was asked to visually pass the maximum number of wooden blocks to the other side of the wooden box without moving, three times for both hands. While visualizing, the participants pressed the button in front of them for each wooden block they placed, thus the number of wooden blocks they imagined passing to the other side was seen. The number of imaged movement blocks was obtained by taking the average of 3 applications. The number of wooden blocks passed with actual movement and imagined movement was compared.

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