Effects of Mental Practice on Manual Gripping Motor Function

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Hand Grasp

Treatments: Behavioral: Placebo intervention; Behavioral: Motor imagery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04545684

uammadrid31

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objective is to evaluate and quantify the manual gripping force caused by mental practice

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 18 and 60
• Healthy and with no pain subjects

Exclusion criteria

• Any cognitive impairment that hindered viewing of audiovisual material.
• Difficulty understanding or communicating.
• Presence of systemic pathology, Central Nervous System or rheumatic disease.
• Inadequate understanding of the Spanish language to follow instructions for measuring and treatment.
• Collaboration of pregnant women.
• Underage subjects
• Subjects with pain at the time of the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Mental practice

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motor imagery

Placebo group

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Placebo intervention