Clinical trial NCT03769974: Evaluation of Motor Learning on a Sequence of Manual Motor Gestures of Increasing Complexity Through the Mental Practise
Official title: Evaluation of Motor Learning on a Sequence of Manual Motor Gestures of Increasing Complexity Through the Action Observation Training and Motor Imagery: a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Motor Activity
Keywords: motor imagery
action observation
motor learning
Lead sponsor: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-12-10
Enrollment: 45
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: The main objective of this research is to evaluate and quantify successes and errors, as well as execution time, in a sequence of manual motor gestures of increasing complexity through mental practice training (observation of actions and motor imagery).

Detailed description: The motor programs stored in the procedural memory systems allow the generation of motor mental images without the need for an external stimulus, although it has been demonstrated that providing visual information, prior to a task of imagination, facilitates it and causes a greater neurophysiological activity than if it were done in an isolated manner. Some studies have shown that in the short term, in complex motor tasks of foot and hand in a coordinated manner, the action observation training provokes a greater motor learning compared to the motor imagery strategy.

However, these studies have only assessed short-term memory immediately after the intervention. No study has so far evaluated these improvements in motor learning through action observation training and motor imagery on consecutive days, nor has it been evaluated with short to medium-term follow-up.

It is therefore that there is a lack in the current scientific literature regarding which isolated method, without physical practice, of mental practice on motor learning is the most effective when exposed both on consecutive days, as well as to short-medium-term follow-up.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age between 18 and 60
* Healthy and with no pain subjects

Exclusion Criteria:

* Any cognitive impairment that hindered viewing of audiovisual material. Difficulty understanding or communicating.
* Presence of systemic pathology, Central Nervous System or rheumatic disease.
* Inadequate understanding of the Spanish language to follow instructions for measuring and treatment.
* Collaboration of pregnant women.
* Underage subjects
* Subjects with pain at the time of the study

Primary outcomes:
measure: Percentage of successes in finger positions
timeFrame: changes in the success rates at the end of the intervention, 7 days, 1 month and 4 months after the end of the intervention
measure: Execution time
timeFrame: changes in the success rates at the end of the intervention, 7 days, 1 month and 4 months after the end of the intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Visual and Kinesthetic Motor Imagery Ability
timeFrame: Pre-intervention
measure: Mental Chronometry
timeFrame: Pre-intervention
measure: The degree of physical activity
timeFrame: Pre-intervention
measure: Laterality task
timeFrame: Pre-intervention
measure: Memory Operation Questionnaire
timeFrame: Pre-intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Madrid
country: Spain
facility: CSEU La Salle
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