So your doctor should be telling you to do both action observation and motor imagery at the same time for best results. But I bet your doctor will never tell you this. This was known 20 years ago, once again proving the stupidity of the stroke medical morons.
http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00807/full?
- 1Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
- 2Centre de Recherche et d'Innovation sur le
Sport, équipe Performance Motrice, Mentale et du Matériel, Université de
Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
- 3Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
Over the last 20 years, the topics of action observation (AO) and
motor imagery (MI) have been largely studied in isolation from each
other, despite the early integrative account by Jeannerod (1994,
2001).
Recent neuroimaging studies demonstrate enhanced cortical activity when
AO and MI are performed concurrently (“AO+MI”), compared to either AO
or MI performed in isolation. These results indicate the potentially
beneficial effects of AO+MI, and they also demonstrate that the
underlying neurocognitive processes are partly shared. We separately
review the evidence for MI and AO as forms of motor simulation, and
present two quantitative literature analyses that indeed indicate rather
little overlap between the two bodies of research. We then propose a
spectrum of concurrent AO+MI states, from congruent AO+MI where the
contents of AO and MI widely overlap, over coordinative AO+MI, where
observed and imagined action are different but can be coordinated with
each other, to cases of conflicting AO+MI. We believe that an
integrative account of AO and MI is theoretically attractive, that it
should generate novel experimental approaches, and that it can also
stimulate a wide range of applications in sport, occupational therapy,
and neurorehabilitation.
Full article at the link after you realize that your doctor will never tell you about this.
Stefan Vogt
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