Effects of Motor Imagery on Motor Learning and Motor Retention in Octogenarian "IMAge-8".
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 终止
- 入组人数
- 84
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Performance at the manual task (Nine Hole Peg Test (NHPT)) (s)
研究概览
简要总结
Aging is associated with impairments in cognitive function, particularly motor learning and memorizing, impacting functional capacities. Older adults are still able to learn new skills but at a slower rate, and they forget quickly the new-learned skill because of an alteration in motor memory. Motor imagery, which is a mental simulation of an action without actual execution, has been demonstrated to improve performance in young adults and stabilize performance after a short break in older adults. However, in very old adults (>80 years old) for whom the decline in motor and cognitive functions is greater, it is unknown whether motor imagery training during a short break is still efficient. Previous studies on old adults were performed on upper limb muscles. Because aging differentially affects upper and lower limb muscles, the present study will aim to explore the effects of motor imagery on motor memorizing in both upper and lower limb muscles.
详细描述
The primary purpose is to evaluate the effectiveness of motor imagery to improve the performance of very old people (> 80 years) through learning a task of the upper limbs.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 80 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Being part of the Proof cohort
- •Signed written consent form
- •Affiliated to social security
排除标准
- •Pathology or chirurgical intervention causing locomotor disorder
- •Neurological or psychic pathology
- •Use psychotropic drugs
- •Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) < 20
结局指标
主要结局
Performance at the manual task (Nine Hole Peg Test (NHPT)) (s)
时间窗: Day: 0
Comparison of performance at the manual task (Nine Hole Peg Test (NHPT)) results in post-test between experimental and control group. Measured in seconds when performing manual task.
次要结局
- Learning capacity of manual task (Nine Hole Peg Test (NHPT))(Day: 0)
- Learning capacity of motor task (hopscotch)(Day: 7)
- Test of Get-up-and-Go (s)(Day: 0)
- Test of 6 minutes walking (m)(Day: 0)
- Performance at the motor task (s)(Day: 7)