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Promising Effect of Visually-Assisted Motor Imagery Against Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition – A Human Experimental Pain Study
PURPOSE: Clinically, arthrogenic muscle inhibition (AMI) has a negative impact on functional recovery in musculoskeletal disorders. One possible technique to relieve AMI is motor imagery, which is widely used in neurological rehabilitation to enhance motor neuron excitability. The purpose of this st...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7868204/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33568937 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S282736 |
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author | Oda, Shota Izumi, Masashi Takaya, Shogo Tadokoro, Nobuaki Aso, Koji Petersen, Kristian Kjær Ikeuchi, Masahiko |
author_facet | Oda, Shota Izumi, Masashi Takaya, Shogo Tadokoro, Nobuaki Aso, Koji Petersen, Kristian Kjær Ikeuchi, Masahiko |
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description | PURPOSE: Clinically, arthrogenic muscle inhibition (AMI) has a negative impact on functional recovery in musculoskeletal disorders. One possible technique to relieve AMI is motor imagery, which is widely used in neurological rehabilitation to enhance motor neuron excitability. The purpose of this study was to verify the efficacy of visually-assisted motor imagery against AMI using a human experimental pain model. METHODS: Ten healthy volunteers were included. Experimental ankle pain was induced by hypertonic saline infusion into unilateral Kager’s fat pad. Isotonic saline was used as control. Subjects were instructed to imagine while watching a movie in which repetitive motion of their own ankle or fingers was shown. H-reflex normalized by the motor response (H/M ratio) on soleus muscle, maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) force of ankle flexion, and contractile activities of the calf muscles during MVC were recorded at baseline, pre-intervention, post-intervention, and 10 minutes after the pain had subsided. RESULTS: Hypertonic saline produced continuous and constant peri-ankle pain (VAS peak [median]= 6.7 [2.1–8.4] cm) compared to isotonic saline (0 [0–0.8] cm). In response to pain, there were significant decreases in the H/M ratio, MVC and contractile activities (P<0.01), all of which were successfully reversed after the ankle motion imagery. In contrast, no significant changes were observed with the finger motion imagery. CONCLUSION: Visually-assisted motor imagery improved the pain-induced AMI. Motor imagery of the painful joint itself would efficiently work for relieving AMI. This investigation possibly shows the potential of a novel and versatile approach against AMI for patients with musculoskeletal pain. |
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spelling | pubmed-78682042021-02-09 Promising Effect of Visually-Assisted Motor Imagery Against Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition – A Human Experimental Pain Study Oda, Shota Izumi, Masashi Takaya, Shogo Tadokoro, Nobuaki Aso, Koji Petersen, Kristian Kjær Ikeuchi, Masahiko J Pain Res Original Research PURPOSE: Clinically, arthrogenic muscle inhibition (AMI) has a negative impact on functional recovery in musculoskeletal disorders. One possible technique to relieve AMI is motor imagery, which is widely used in neurological rehabilitation to enhance motor neuron excitability. The purpose of this study was to verify the efficacy of visually-assisted motor imagery against AMI using a human experimental pain model. METHODS: Ten healthy volunteers were included. Experimental ankle pain was induced by hypertonic saline infusion into unilateral Kager’s fat pad. Isotonic saline was used as control. Subjects were instructed to imagine while watching a movie in which repetitive motion of their own ankle or fingers was shown. H-reflex normalized by the motor response (H/M ratio) on soleus muscle, maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) force of ankle flexion, and contractile activities of the calf muscles during MVC were recorded at baseline, pre-intervention, post-intervention, and 10 minutes after the pain had subsided. RESULTS: Hypertonic saline produced continuous and constant peri-ankle pain (VAS peak [median]= 6.7 [2.1–8.4] cm) compared to isotonic saline (0 [0–0.8] cm). In response to pain, there were significant decreases in the H/M ratio, MVC and contractile activities (P<0.01), all of which were successfully reversed after the ankle motion imagery. In contrast, no significant changes were observed with the finger motion imagery. CONCLUSION: Visually-assisted motor imagery improved the pain-induced AMI. Motor imagery of the painful joint itself would efficiently work for relieving AMI. This investigation possibly shows the potential of a novel and versatile approach against AMI for patients with musculoskeletal pain. Dove 2021-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7868204/ /pubmed/33568937 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S282736 Text en © 2021 Oda et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Oda, Shota Izumi, Masashi Takaya, Shogo Tadokoro, Nobuaki Aso, Koji Petersen, Kristian Kjær Ikeuchi, Masahiko Promising Effect of Visually-Assisted Motor Imagery Against Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition – A Human Experimental Pain Study |
title | Promising Effect of Visually-Assisted Motor Imagery Against Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition – A Human Experimental Pain Study |
title_full | Promising Effect of Visually-Assisted Motor Imagery Against Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition – A Human Experimental Pain Study |
title_fullStr | Promising Effect of Visually-Assisted Motor Imagery Against Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition – A Human Experimental Pain Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Promising Effect of Visually-Assisted Motor Imagery Against Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition – A Human Experimental Pain Study |
title_short | Promising Effect of Visually-Assisted Motor Imagery Against Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition – A Human Experimental Pain Study |
title_sort | promising effect of visually-assisted motor imagery against arthrogenic muscle inhibition – a human experimental pain study |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7868204/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33568937 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S282736 |
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