Mental Imagery Enhances Proprioception in Patients With Low Back Pain (MI)

Lebanese University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Low Back Pain

Treatments

Other: Watching or imagining movement

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01469949

LEBUNIV001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Mental imagery has been used in a variety of pathological instances in support to classical therapeutic treatments. The aim of the present study was to observe the effect of internal Kinesthetic and external Visual Imagery to improve proprioceptive feedback in low back pain. Fifty-five subjects with a history of low back pain were included in two experimental groups who used mental imagery and one control group who did not. The results showed the effectiveness of the Internal Kinesthetic Imagery to improve the accuracy of repositioning of lumbo-sacral spine that may subsequently improve the quality of the proprioceptive input. The possibility to use effectively mental imagery, as a part of proprioceptive rehabilitation process, is the principal outcome of this study.

Enrollment

55 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 21 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Subjects suffering from common non-specific low back pain

Exclusion criteria

Recent history of inner ear infection causing associated balance or coordination problems
History of cerebral trauma followed by unresolved neurosensory symptoms
Recent history of vestibular disorder and previous spinal surgery
An involvement in specific balance or stabilization training during the 6 months prior testing. Patients taking pain medication were excluded from the study.