Can they touch? A novel mental motor imagery task for the assessment of back pain
IntroductionAs motor imagery is informed by the anticipated sensory consequences of action, including pain, we reasoned that motor imagery could provide a useful indicator of chronic back pain. We tested the hypothesis that mental motor imagery regarding body movements can provide a reliable assessm...
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| author | H. Branch Coslett Jared Medina Daria Kliot Goodman Yuchao Wang Adam Burkey |
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| description | IntroductionAs motor imagery is informed by the anticipated sensory consequences of action, including pain, we reasoned that motor imagery could provide a useful indicator of chronic back pain. We tested the hypothesis that mental motor imagery regarding body movements can provide a reliable assessment of low back pain.MethodsEighty-five subjects with back pain and forty-five age-matched controls were shown two names of body parts and asked to indicate if they could imagine moving so that the named body parts touched. Three types of imagined movements were interrogated: movements of arms, movements of legs and movements requiring flexion and/or rotation of the low back.ResultsAccuracy and reaction times were measured. Subjects with back pain were less likely to indicate that they could touch body parts than age-matched controls. The effect was observed only for those movements that required movement of the low back or legs, suggesting that the effect was not attributable to task difficulty or non-specific effects. There was an effect of pain severity. Compared to subjects with mild pain, subjects with severe pain were significantly less likely to indicate that they could move so that named body parts touched. There was a correlation between pain ratings and impaired performance for stimuli that involved the lower but not upper body.DiscussionAs the Can They Touch task is quick, easy to administer and does not require an explicit judgment of pain severity, it may provide useful information to supplement the assessment of subjects with chronic pain. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-41fc8b51a4e441f5b8cc1a432fdc89ac2024-02-05T04:44:11ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Pain Research2673-561X2024-02-01410.3389/fpain.2023.11896951189695Can they touch? A novel mental motor imagery task for the assessment of back painH. Branch Coslett0Jared Medina1Daria Kliot Goodman2Yuchao Wang3Adam Burkey4Department of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United StatesDepartment of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesDepartment of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAnesis Spine and Pain Care, Renton, WA, United StatesIntroductionAs motor imagery is informed by the anticipated sensory consequences of action, including pain, we reasoned that motor imagery could provide a useful indicator of chronic back pain. We tested the hypothesis that mental motor imagery regarding body movements can provide a reliable assessment of low back pain.MethodsEighty-five subjects with back pain and forty-five age-matched controls were shown two names of body parts and asked to indicate if they could imagine moving so that the named body parts touched. Three types of imagined movements were interrogated: movements of arms, movements of legs and movements requiring flexion and/or rotation of the low back.ResultsAccuracy and reaction times were measured. Subjects with back pain were less likely to indicate that they could touch body parts than age-matched controls. The effect was observed only for those movements that required movement of the low back or legs, suggesting that the effect was not attributable to task difficulty or non-specific effects. There was an effect of pain severity. Compared to subjects with mild pain, subjects with severe pain were significantly less likely to indicate that they could move so that named body parts touched. There was a correlation between pain ratings and impaired performance for stimuli that involved the lower but not upper body.DiscussionAs the Can They Touch task is quick, easy to administer and does not require an explicit judgment of pain severity, it may provide useful information to supplement the assessment of subjects with chronic pain.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpain.2023.1189695/fullmotor imagerylow back painpain measurementbody schemamotor cognition |
| spellingShingle | H. Branch Coslett Jared Medina Daria Kliot Goodman Yuchao Wang Adam Burkey Can they touch? A novel mental motor imagery task for the assessment of back pain Frontiers in Pain Research motor imagery low back pain pain measurement body schema motor cognition |
| title | Can they touch? A novel mental motor imagery task for the assessment of back pain |
| title_full | Can they touch? A novel mental motor imagery task for the assessment of back pain |
| title_fullStr | Can they touch? A novel mental motor imagery task for the assessment of back pain |
| title_full_unstemmed | Can they touch? A novel mental motor imagery task for the assessment of back pain |
| title_short | Can they touch? A novel mental motor imagery task for the assessment of back pain |
| title_sort | can they touch a novel mental motor imagery task for the assessment of back pain |
| topic | motor imagery low back pain pain measurement body schema motor cognition |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpain.2023.1189695/full |
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