Effect of Motor Imagery in Improving Trunk Control among Hemiparetic Patients

Motor imagery as an intervention to improve activities of daily living post-stroke: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials

“…Three studies used the BI to measure independence in BADL (Ahmad et al, 2014; Braun et al, 2012; Ietswaart et al, 2011), while the Modified Barthel Index (MBI) was used in five studies (Ji et al, 2021; Pan et al, 2019; Park, 2015, 2020; Park et al, 2015). Independence in ADL was measured in two studies using the full FIM (Kulkarni and Sureshkumar, 2018; Nam et al, 2019). Yin et al (2022) used the transfer and locomotion subscales of the FIM as opposed to the scale in its entirety.…”

“…ESs were calculated from the original BI, 2 out of 10 studies; the MBI, 4 out of 10 studies; the FIM, 3 out of 10 studies; and an original task observation assessment, 1 out of 10 studies. Two fair-quality studies did not provide any information on the mode of MI instruction (Ahmad et al, 2014; Kulkarni and Sureshkumar, 2018). These two studies were therefore not categorized, and their ESs were not calculated.…”

“…A total of 13 articles met the inclusion criteria and are summarized in Table 2. Included studies were carried out in Hong Kong (Liu et al, 2004(Liu et al, , 2009, the Netherlands (Braun et al, 2012), Scotland (Ietswaart et al, 2011), China (Pan et al, 2019;Yin et al, 2022), South Korea (Ji et al, 2021;Nam et al, 2019;Park, 2015Park, , 2020, and two in unspecified locations (Ahmad et al, 2014;Kulkarni and Sureshkumar, 2018). In terms of quality, the PEDro score indicated that one study was rated poor, three rated fair, and nine rated good.…”