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- Title
Diminished Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery Ability in Adults With Chronic Low Back Pain.
- Authors
La Touche, Roy; Grande‐Alonso, Mónica; Cuenca‐Martínez, Ferran; Gónzález‐Ferrero, Luis; Suso‐Martí, Luis; Paris‐Alemany, Alba; Grande-Alonso, Mónica; Cuenca-Martínez, Ferran; Gónzalez-Ferrero, Luis; Suso-Martí, Luis; Paris-Alemany, Alba; Gónzález-Ferrero, Luis
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Low back pain (LBP) is the most prevalent musculoskeletal problem among adults. It has been observed that patients with chronic pain have maladaptive neuroplastic changes and difficulty in imagination processes.<bold>Objective: </bold>To assess the ability of patients with chronic LBP (CLBP) to generate kinesthetic and visual motor images and the time they spent on this mental task compared with asymptomatic participants.<bold>Design: </bold>A prospective, cross-sectional study.<bold>Setting: </bold>Primary health care center in Madrid, Spain.<bold>Participants: </bold>A total of 200 participants were classified into 2 groups: asymptomatic participants (n = 100) and patients with CLBP (n = 100).<bold>Methods: </bold>After consenting to participate, all recruited participants received a sociodemographic questionnaire, a set of self-report measures and completed the Revised Movement Imagery Questionnaire.<bold>Main Outcomes Measurements: </bold>Visual and Kinesthetic Motor Imagery Ability using the Revised Movement Imagery Questionnaire. A mental chronometry using a stopwatch and psychosocial variables using self-reported questionnaires.<bold>Results: </bold>Our results indicated that patients with CLBP had difficulty generating kinesthetic and visual motor images and also took a longer time to imagine them. A regression analysis indicated that in the CLBP group, the predictor variable for fear of activity and coping symptom self-efficacy was visual motor imagery (explaining 16.2% of the variance); however, the predictor variable for LBP disability and pain management self-efficacy was kinesthetic motor imagery (explaining 17.8% of the variance).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>It appears that patients with CLBP have greater difficulty generating visual and kinesthetic motor images compared with asymptomatic participants, and they also need more time to perform these mental tasks.<bold>Level Of Evidence: </bold>II.
- Subjects
SPAIN; CHRONIC pain &; psychology; CHRONIC pain; FEAR; IMAGINATION; LONGITUDINAL method; PSYCHOLOGY of movement; MUSCULAR sense; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF-efficacy; CROSS-sectional method; LUMBAR pain
- Publication
PM & R: Journal of Injury, Function & Rehabilitation, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 3, p227
- ISSN
1934-1482
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1016/j.pmrj.2018.05.025