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Motor Imagery Intervention for Improving Gait and Cognition in the Elderly
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Imagined Gait Intervention and Visual Imagery Intervention for Motor Activity. Completed, enrolled 49 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The investigators propose a single-blind randomized clinical trial to determine if seniors show improved mobility (walking speed) and cognition following motor imagery (imagined walking) training. They hypothesize that imagined walking can be used as a rehabilitative tool for improving walking speed and cognition in the elderly, because it engages and strengthens similar neural systems as actual walking and cognition.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Phone-based imagined gait intervention: participants will be called by the experimenter three times a week and be asked to imagine walking, imagine talking and imagine walking-while-talking. They will also be asked to rate their visual and kinesthetic qualities of their images on a 1-5 scale following each trial.
Phone-based visual imagery intervention: participants will be called three times a week by the experimenter and be asked to imagine concrete objects (e.g. octopus, teapot, and shovel). They will also be asked to rate their visual qualities of their images on a 1-5 scale following each trial.