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SUBMITTER: Zapparoli L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7265300 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zapparoli Laura L Sacheli Lucia Maria LM Seghezzi Silvia S Preti Matteo M Stucovitz Elena E Negrini Francesco F Pelosi Catia C Ursino Nicola N Banfi Giuseppe G Paulesu Eraldo E
Scientific reports 20200602 1
With Motor imagery (MI), movements are mentally rehearsed without overt actions; this procedure has been adopted in motor rehabilitation, primarily in brain-damaged patients. Here we rather tested the clinical potentials of MI in purely orthopaedic patients who, by definition, should maximally benefit of mental exercises because of their intact brain. To this end we studied the recovery of gait after total knee arthroplasty and evaluated whether MI combined with physiotherapy could speed up the ...[more]