Stand up to excite the spine: neuromuscular, autonomic, and cardiometabolic responses during motor imagery in standing vs. sitting posture

S Grosprêtre, U Marusic, P Gimenez… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Motor imagery (MI) for health and performance strategies has gained interest in recent
decades. Nevertheless, there are still no studies that have comprehensively investigated the …

[PDF][PDF] Postural control modulation during motor imagery tasks: a systematic review

NS de Souza, ACG Martins, KDS Canuto, D Machado… - Int Arch Med, 2015 - academia.edu
The motor imagery (MI) has two strategies (kinesthetic and visual) and can be defined as an
act to codify the mental rehearsal of an intended action, without executing it. Studying the …

Cardiometabolic and neuromuscular analyses of the sit-to-stand transition to question its role in reducing sedentary patterns

L Isacco, P Gimenez, G Ennequin, L Mourot… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
To counteract the detrimental health effect of sitting all day long, it has been suggested to
regularly break sitting time by standing. However, while the difference in energy …

Feasibility of motor imagery and effects of activating and relaxing practice on autonomic functions in healthy young adults: A randomised, controlled, assessor-blinded …

T Kahraman, DO Kaya, T Isik, SC Gultekin… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Motor imagery (MI) is the mental rehearsal of a motor task. Between real and
imagined movements, a functional equivalence has been described regarding timing and …

Age-related differences in corticospinal excitability during observation and motor imagery of balance tasks

AA Mouthon, J Ruffieux, M Keller… - Frontiers in aging …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Postural control declines across adult lifespan. Non-physical balance training has been
suggested as an alternative to improve postural control in frail/immobilized elderly people …

Effects of action observation and motor imagery of walking on the corticospinal and spinal motoneuron excitability and motor imagery ability in healthy participants

N Kaneko, A Sasaki, H Yokoyama, Y Masugi… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Action observation (AO) and motor imagery (MI) are used for the rehabilitation of patients
who face difficulty walking. Rehabilitation involving AO, MI, and AO combined with MI (AO+ …

Comparative analysis of the autonomic nervous system response during movement representation in healthy individuals and patients with chronic low back pain: a …

MC Diaz-Saez, R La Touche… - Somatosensory & Motor …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Objective The primary objective was to compare the difference in autonomic nervous system
(ANS) response between motor imagery (MI) group and action observation (AO) group. Both …

A novel motorized office chair causes low-amplitude spinal movements and activates trunk muscles: A cross-over trial

H Schäfer, R Schäfer, P Platen - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Inactivity and long periods of sitting are common in our society, even though
they pose a health risk. Dynamic sitting is recommended to reduce this risk. The purpose of …

Motor Imagery Task Alters Dynamics of Human Body Posture

F Delavari, SMRH Golpayegani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Motor Imagery (MI) is gaining traction in both rehabilitation and sports settings, but its
immediate influence on human postural control is not yet clearly understood. The focus of …

Muscle-specific modulation of spinal reflexes in lower-limb muscles during action observation with and without motor imagery of walking

N Kaneko, Y Masugi, N Usuda, H Yokoyama… - Brain Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Action observation (AO) and motor imagery (MI) are useful techniques in neurorehabilitation.
Previous studies have reported that AO and MI facilitate corticospinal excitability only in …