Effects of Motor Imagery on Trapeziometacarpal Osteoarthritis in Women During the Postoperative Immobilization Period

Eva Prado Robles

Status: Completed

Conditions: Immobilization; Osteoarthritis Thumb

Treatments: Procedure: motor imagery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03815734

SALUDDOCTORADO

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to verify whether after trapeziometacarpal osteoarthrosis surgery and during the period of immobilization immediately after it, applying motor imagery, improvements are achieved on pain, strength, edema and / or inflammation, function and the joint range, accelerating the recovery process.

Full description

Motor imagery (IM) consists of a complex cognitive operation by which an action is simulated without doing it physically.

Many studies support the usefulness of motor imaging in rehabilitation after manual surgery.

An approach based on motor imagery may be useful in trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis, and may be used to promote motor recovery after surgical treatment.

Enrollment: 44 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 50 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The participants on the surgical waiting list of the Hospital of León

Exclusion criteria

• Other hand pathologies

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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44 participants in 2 patient groups

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Non intervention group

intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

motor imagery group

Treatment:

Procedure: motor imagery