Improved motor performance in patients with acute stroke using the optimal individual attentional strategy.

ABSTRACT: It is believed that motor performance improves when individuals direct attention to movement outcome (external focus, EF) rather than to body movement itself (internal focus, IF). However, our previous study found that an optimal individual attentional strategy depended on motor imagery ability. We explored whether the individual motor imagery ability in stroke patients also affected the optimal attentional strategy for motor control. Individual motor imagery ability was determined as either kinesthetic- or visual-dominant by a questionnaire in 28 patients and 28 healthy-controls. Participants then performed a visuomotor task that required tracing a trajectory under three attentional conditions: no instruction (NI), attention to hand movement (IF), or attention to cursor movement (EF). Mov

SUBMITTER: Sakurada T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5240116 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature