Effect of Cervical Kinesthetic Motor Imagery on Postural Control of Healthy Young Adults with Fear of Falling
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Kinesthetic and Visual Imagery Questionnaire (KVIQ-10)
2.2. Wii Balance Board (WBB)®
2.3. Digital Goniometry
2.4. Experimental Protocol
2.5. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Subjects and Characteristics of the Group
3.2. Comparisons between Task Execution and Imagination
3.3. Influence of Motor Imagery (MI) on Postural Control of Phobic and Non-Phobic Subjects
3.4. Other Correlations
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Descriptive Data | Age (years) | BMI (kg/m2) | Number of Falls in 1 Year | Subjective Scale of FoF (0 to 100) | FoF after MI of Cervical Flexion (0 to 100) | FoF after MI of Cervical Inclination (0 to 100) |
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Average ± SD | 22.65 ± 4.09 | 25.20 ± 4.10 | 1 ± 1.48 | 12 ± 16.6 | 20.4 ± 22.13 | 18.2 ± 20.2 |
Minimum | 19 | 18.81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Maximum | 36 | 34.32 | 5 | 50 | 75 | 80 |
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Silva de Souza, N.; Martins, A.C.G.; Ferreira, C.L.; Motizuki, Y.S.; Machado, C.B.; Orsini, M.; Leite, M.A.A.; Bastos, V.H. Effect of Cervical Kinesthetic Motor Imagery on Postural Control of Healthy Young Adults with Fear of Falling. J. Funct. Morphol. Kinesiol. 2017, 2, 21. https://doi.org/10.3390/jfmk2020021
Silva de Souza N, Martins ACG, Ferreira CL, Motizuki YS, Machado CB, Orsini M, Leite MAA, Bastos VH. Effect of Cervical Kinesthetic Motor Imagery on Postural Control of Healthy Young Adults with Fear of Falling. Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology. 2017; 2(2):21. https://doi.org/10.3390/jfmk2020021
Chicago/Turabian StyleSilva de Souza, Nélio, Ana Carolina G. Martins, Caroline L. Ferreira, Yasmin S. Motizuki, Christiano B. Machado, Marco Orsini, Marco Antônio A. Leite, and Victor Hugo Bastos. 2017. "Effect of Cervical Kinesthetic Motor Imagery on Postural Control of Healthy Young Adults with Fear of Falling" Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology 2, no. 2: 21. https://doi.org/10.3390/jfmk2020021