Effect of Brain Training Through Visual Mirror Feedback, Action Observation Training and Motor Imagery on Orofacial Sensorimotor Variables in Asymptomatic Subjects: A Single-blind Randomized Controlled Trial.

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Pain; Exercise

Treatments: Behavioral: Exercise plus action observation; Behavioral: Exercise plus visual mirror feedback; Behavioral: Exercise plus motor imagery; Behavioral: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04021147

uammadrid9

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objective of the present study was to evaluate the effects of action observation (AO), visual mirror feedback (VMF), motor imagery (MI) combined with an orofacial exercise program in asymptomatic subjects.

Enrollment: 55 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. healthy individuals with no pain
2. aged between 18 and 65 years
3. subjects with correct masticatory function and labial and lingual mobility

Exclusion criteria

1. individuals who presented systemic, cardiorespiratory, central nervous system or rheumatic diseases, or those who presented any musculoskeletal or craniocervical pathology
2. underage individuals
3. individuals with orofacial pain or temporomandibular disorders at the time of the study; (d) subjects' complaint of toothache or tenderness to percussion.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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55 participants in 4 patient groups

Action Observation

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise plus action observation

Motor Imagery

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise plus motor imagery

Visual mirror feedback

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise plus visual mirror feedback

Orofacial exercise

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise