Determination of the Effects of Motor Imagery on Learning Infant Massage
Condition: Students
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      Motor imagery is the mental rehearsal of simple or complex motor movements in which no clear
      body movement occurs. It can also be defined as the mental simulation of movement without
      revealing any real motor movement. Studies have shown that similar brain regions are
      activated during the performance of the movement and the imagery of the movement. According
      to the results obtained from advanced imaging techniques, it has been reported that
      activations occur in similar areas during motor imagery and physical performance, including
      brain areas such as premotor areas, parietal lobe, basal ganglia, anterior cingulate cortex,
      and cerebellum. When the literature is examined, it has been seen that motor imagery
      applications are used in many different areas. In 2021, the effect of motor imagery training
      on students' motor imagery levels and practice in the education of medical school students by
      Collet et al. was investigated. As a result of the training, it was reported that motor
      skills improved and it strengthened the learning of medical skills.
    

Detailed description: 
      Infantile colic was first defined in 1954 by Wessel et al. The incidence of infantile colic
      varies between 10-30%. There was no study showing the general colic frequency in Turkey,
      however, in a study conducted in the Eastern Anatolia Region in 2005, the incidence of
      infantile colic was reported as 51.1%. Although the causes of colic are not fully explained,
      food allergy or lactose intolerance, hypersensitivity, abnormal peristalsis or excessive gas,
      tension and stress in the family, swallowing air during bottle feeding or excessive crying,
      gastro-esophageal reflux, low birth weight, psychosocial It is thought that factors such as
      problems cause colic.

      Thus, in physiotherapy education, there are many practical lectures. In the recent years,
      motor imagery has been used to teach exercises to the patients who need physiotherapy like
      stroke patients. Thus, it is considered that motor imagery can be used in the education and
      in the literature, there are papers which investigate the effects of motor imagery among the
      students of nursing and medicine. In conclusion, the aim is to see whether this method can be
      used as a new teaching method among physiotherapy students, thus this may bring the students
      more familiar for the use in their future clinical practices.
    

Intervention name(s): Motor Imagery Education
Intervention type(s): Other
Intervention description(s): Within the scope of motor imagery training, a presentation will be made to the students of pediatric rehabilitation lecture in the intervention group about what motor imagery is. "PETTLEP" model will be used for imagery training. In this model, imagery training will be prepared in accordance with our purpose, taking into account the physical, environmental, time, task, learning, emotion and personal subheadings. In the training sessions, relaxation exercises will be given for 5 minutes first. After the relaxation exercises, special "colic massage" imagery training will be given to newborns for 10 minutes. The massage will also be shown as practically at class.
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Other
Keywords: physiotherapy and rehabilitation