Best practice for motor imagery: A systematic literature review on motor imagery training elements in five different disciplines

BMC Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Schuster, Corina ^a,b   Hilfiker, Roger ^c   Amft, Oliver ^d,e   Scheidhauer, Anne ^a   Andrews, Brian ^f,g   Butler, Jenny ^b   Kischka, Udo ^a,h   Ettlin, Thierry ^a,i  

^a Reha Rheinfelden   (Switzerland)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Applied Sciences   (Switzerland)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h OXFORD CENTRE FOR ENABLEMENT   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; IMAGERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTION STUDY; KINESTHESIA; LEARNING; MEDICINE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR IMAGERY TRAINING SESSION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSIC; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; SPORT; SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY; STRENGTH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT DURATION; ADULT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MESH HEADING; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RESISTANCE TRAINING; REVIEW; TIME;

ADULT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RESISTANCE TRAINING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958796398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-9-75     Document Type: Article

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