ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2022
The Effects of Motor Imagery on Pain in Lower Limb Sports Injuries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Review in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluating the impact of movement representation techniques on recovery outcomes in post-orthopaedic surgery individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Pooled it
- Differences in motor imagery abilities in active and sedentary individuals: new insights from backward-walking imagination.Psychological research · 2024Trial
- Motor Imagery Ability and Motor Imagery Perspective Among Professional Football Players.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Lower-Limb Motor Imagery Recognition Prototype Based on EEG Acquisition, Filtering, and Machine Learning-Based Pattern Detection.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Improving Methodological Quality in Meta-Analyses of Athlete Pain Interventions: An Overview of Systematic Reviews.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Effects of Motor Imagery on Static and Dynamic Balance and on the Fear of Re-Injury in Professional Football Players with Grade II Ankle Sprains.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Physical Therapists' Use of Psychological Skills Training in Rehabilitation Following Traumatic Knee Injury: An Online Survey Study.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2024Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This review evaluated the efficacy of Motor Imagery intervention in athletes with lower limb sports injuries that could affect their pain levels during rehabilitation. We carried out a thorough research of the scientific literature for RCT studies in athletes with lower limb musculoskeletal sports injuries including search terms Motor Imagery AND pain, Motor Imagery AND sport injuries, Motor Imagery AND lower limb. We searched 3 major databases, PubMed, Scopus, and ScienceDirect, with the search period ranging from their inception until May 2022. We assessed the quality of the studies using the PEDro Scale and the data was recorded and extracted with the use of Mendeley software. The search criteria resulted in a pool of 10.107 possible articles. Upon completion of the selection procedure, only 3 RCT studies met the inclusion criteria with a total of 60 injured athletes (
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