Guided motor imagery in healthy adults and stroke: Does strategy matter?

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 851-857

  Hovington, Cindy L ^a   Brouwer, Brenda ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cueing; facilitation; motor cortex; transcranial magnetic stimulation; voluntary drive

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ABDUCTOR DIGITI MINIMI; ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEUS; GUIDED IMAGERY; GUIDED MOTOR IMAGERY; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PARESIS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649241325     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968310374190     Document Type: Article

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