Volume : VI, Issue : VIII, August - 2017

MOTOR IMAGERY IN GAIT & BALANCE REHABILITATION FOR POST STROKE HEMIPARESIS

Aparna Gupta

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 Background: There is dearth of literature elucidating application of intensive motor imagery on gait and balance rehabilitation in post stroke hemiparesis although sufficient literature is available on efficacy of motor imagery in upper limb function following stroke and in the field of sports and psychology.

Methods: 30 stroke patients from hospitals in Delhi were screened on the basis of an assessment performa. The subjects were included in the study after getting the informed consent. Selection of subjects was done according to sample of convenience. Allocation of subjects into two groups, 15 each, following inclusion criteria was done according to permuted block randomization. It was a three week study, every week a video was shown to the experimental group, to imagine and feel normal movements of paretic limbs, while conventional therapeutic exercises remained same for control and experimental group.

Results: Comparison was done between the groups of age, weight and height before intervention. MMSE, MAS, KVIQ were compared between the groups before intervention. Post interventions, weekly walking speed was compared both within and between groups using ANOVA and independent t-tests respectively. Similarly, TPOMA balance scores and gait scores were assessed both within and between groups, weekly, using ANOVA and Mann Whitney U test respectively.

Conclusion: Motor Imagery facilitates faster recovery and complements conventional physical therapy. It has proved beneficial in enhancing locomotors capabilities of stroke patients. Balance and walking speed has shown statistically significant improvement, due to motor imagery along with conventional exercises. Gait did not show statistically significant improvement even though the scores were higher for the MI+PT group than PT group alone.

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Aparna Gupta, MOTOR IMAGERY IN GAIT & BALANCE REHABILITATION FOR POST STROKE HEMIPARESIS, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-6, ISSUE-8, AUGUST-2017

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