Motor Imagery in Healthy Individuals

Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health, Subjective

Treatments: Other: İntervention group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05236244

BurcinAkcay

Details and patient eligibility

About

The research will be the first to examine the relationship between mental fatigue induced by motor imagery and upper extremity performance. This study, it is aimed to examine whether the effects of mental fatigue created by motor imagery on upper extremity performance can be reduced by diaphragmatic breathing exercises.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Right-handed dominance (it will be decided according to Edinburgh Hand Questionnaire Result)
• Volunteer to participate in the study.
• To be sedentary
• Not having any problems that prevent breathing exercises
• Be between the ages of 18-30

Exclusion criteria

• Have any mental or sensory problems in the past 6 months
• Presence of acute infection or chronic disease of neurological, psychiatric, orthopedic, cardiological, rheumatological, etc.
• Having had Covid-19
• Having any respiratory disease (asthma, COPD, etc.)
• Having any upper extremity injury and/or operation (trauma, surgery, fracture, etc.) in the -Last 6 months doing regular exercises (at least 30 minutes a day / 5 times a week for a total of at least 150 minutes)
• Be on regular medication
• Be smoking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

İntervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Diaphragmatic breathing exercises: First Evaluation + (1 week break) + Motor imagery protocol + Second Evaluation + 8 weeks of diaphragmatic breathing exercises +Third Evaluation +(1 week interval) + Motor imagery protocol + Fourth Evaluation

Treatment:

Other: İntervention group

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

First Evaluation + (1 week break) + Motor imagery protocol + Second Evaluation + 8 weeks break +Third Evaluation +(1 week interval) + Motor imagery protocol + Fourth Evaluation