Motor imagery for walking: A comparison between cerebral palsy adolescents with hemiplegia and diplegia |
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| Institution: | 1. Laboratoire Psychologie des Actions Langagières et Motrices, Université de Caen, France;2. Radboud University Nijmegen, Behavioural Science Institute, The Netherlands;3. Australian Catholic University, School of Psychology, Melbourne, Australia;4. Laboratoire Cognitions Humaine et Artificielle, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France;1. Royal Dutch Visio, Centre of Expertise for Blind and Partially Sighted People, The Netherlands;2. Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, Research and Innovation Group in Health Care and in Nursing, Groningen, The Netherlands;3. Maastricht University, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Maastricht, The Netherlands;4. Adelante Center of Expertise in Rehabilitation and Audiology, Valkenburg and Hoensbroek, The Netherlands;5. AVANSplus, University for Professionals for Paediatric Physical Therapy, Breda, The Netherlands;6. University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Groningen, The Netherlands;7. Australian Catholic University, School of Psychology, Melbourne, Australia;8. Radboud University Nijmegen, Behavioural Science Institute, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;1. Scientific Centre of Excellence for Basic, Clinical and Translational Neuroscience, Croatian Institute for Brain Research, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Croatia;2. University Hospital Dubrava, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Croatia;3. Clinical Hospital Centre Zagreb, Department of Pediatrics, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Croatia;4. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences of the Mother, Children and Adults, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy |
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| Abstract: | The goal of the study was to investigate whether motor imagery (MI) could be observed in cerebral palsy (CP) participants presenting a bilateral affected body side (diplegia) as it has been previously revealed in participants presenting a unilateral body affected sided (hemiplegia). MI capacity for walking was investigated in CP adolescents diagnosed with hemiplegia (n = 10) or diplegia (n = 10) and in adolescents with typical motor development (n = 10). Participants were explicitly asked to imagine walking before and after actually walking toward a target located at 4 m and 8 m. Movement durations for executed and imagined trials were recorded. ANOVA and Pearson's correlation analyses revealed the existence of time invariance between executed and imagined movement durations for the control group and both groups of CP participants. However, results revealed that MI capacity in CP participants was observed for the short distance (4 m) but not for the long distance (8 m). Moreover, even for short distance, CP participants performed worse than typical adolescents. These results are discussed inline of recent researches suggesting that MI in CP participants may not depend on the side of the lesion. |
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| Keywords: | Motor imagery Mental chronometry CP Walking |
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