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  • 1Universite Lyon, UCBL-Lyon 1, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Trajectoires Team, Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier, Bâtiment 452, 95 Boulevard Pinel, F-69675 Bron, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Trajectoires Team, Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier, Bâtiment 452, 95 Boulevard Pinel, F-69675 Bron, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

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Individuals with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) show distinct motor imagery (MI) abilities. While explicit MI is preserved, implicit MI, particularly hand orientation judgments, reflects actual motor deficits after SCI.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Motor Control

Background:

  • Cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to significant upper limb sensorimotor deficits, impacting daily activity and participation.
  • Upper limb rehabilitation, potentially including motor imagery (MI), is crucial for recovery, but MI ability post-SCI is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate implicit and explicit motor imagery (MI) abilities in individuals with C6/C7 cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) compared to controls.
  • To determine if MI ability is impaired or preserved following SCI and how it relates to motor deficits.

Main Methods:

  • Employed implicit MI tasks (hand laterality, hand orientation judgments, hand-object interaction) and explicit MI tasks (mental chronometry).
  • Assessed individuals with C6/C7 SCI and age/gender-matched controls without SCI.

Main Results:

  • Implicit MI ability profiles differed between groups, especially in hand orientation judgments (HOJT), correlating with elbow movement deficits in the SCIC6 group.
  • Explicit MI ability profiles were similar across groups, reflecting task familiarity and the inability to perform paralyzed movements in the SCI group.
  • Behavioral patterns in implicit MI mirrored existing motor deficits, particularly for tasks involving internal representations of affected body parts.

Conclusions:

  • Individuals with long-term SCI utilize embodied cognitive-motor strategies comparable to controls.
  • Implicit MI performance differences highlight a direct link between MI ability and the specific motor impairments resulting from SCI.