TY - JOUR
T1 - Motor imagery of walking and walking while talking
T2 - a pilot randomized-controlled trial protocol for older adults
AU - Blumen, Helena M.
AU - Verghese, Joe
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - Over a third of community-residing elderly have clinical gait abnormalities, and gait impairment is associated with morbidity, mortality and dementia. Motor imagery - envisioning motor actions without actual execution - has been used to improve gait in Parkinson's disease and poststroke, but the efficacy of motor imagery in healthy elderly is unknown. This single-blind pilot randomized-controlled trial aims to establish feasibility and explore the efficacy of a 3-month, telephone-based motor imagery intervention - that involves imagined walking, imagined talking and imagined walking while talking for improving gait in 48 healthy elderly. The primary outcomes will be gait speed during actual walking and walking while talking. Secondary outcomes will include cognitive performance during actual talking and walking while talking, and functional neuroplasticity during imagined walking and walking while talking. This clinical trial has been registered on clinicaltrials.gov (identifier NCT02762604).
AB - Over a third of community-residing elderly have clinical gait abnormalities, and gait impairment is associated with morbidity, mortality and dementia. Motor imagery - envisioning motor actions without actual execution - has been used to improve gait in Parkinson's disease and poststroke, but the efficacy of motor imagery in healthy elderly is unknown. This single-blind pilot randomized-controlled trial aims to establish feasibility and explore the efficacy of a 3-month, telephone-based motor imagery intervention - that involves imagined walking, imagined talking and imagined walking while talking for improving gait in 48 healthy elderly. The primary outcomes will be gait speed during actual walking and walking while talking. Secondary outcomes will include cognitive performance during actual talking and walking while talking, and functional neuroplasticity during imagined walking and walking while talking. This clinical trial has been registered on clinicaltrials.gov (identifier NCT02762604).
KW - clinical trial protocol
KW - executive function
KW - gait speed
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U2 - 10.2217/nmt-2017-0024
DO - 10.2217/nmt-2017-0024
M3 - Article
C2 - 29165011
AN - SCOPUS:85049410628
SN - 1758-2024
VL - 7
SP - 353
EP - 363
JO - Neurodegenerative disease management
JF - Neurodegenerative disease management
IS - 6
ER -