Hypoalgesic Effects of Walking and Running Imagined

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Analgesia

Treatments: Behavioral: Motor imagery

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04548323

uammadrid32

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objective is to identify the hypoalgesic effect of the imagination of actions in sedentary subjects with high levels of physical activity.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• asymptomatic participants
• men and women aged 18 to 65 years

Exclusion criteria

• insomnia
• nausea
• headache
• pregnancy
• use of painkillers in the last 24 hours
• presence of metal inside the head
• pacemaker
• wound on the area of electrodes' application
• drug consumption; (j) recent application of tDCS
• psychiatric disease impeding understanding of the study.

Trial design

40 participants in 2 patient groups

Motor Imagery in Sedentary subjects

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motor imagery

Motor Imagery active subjects

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motor imagery