By exercising your brain in measured and monitored steps, which increase as progress is made, Graded Motor Imagery (GMI) can treat difficult and ongoing pain problems. GMI is the most up-to-date rehabilitation program – based on the latest science and clinical trials – to treat many complex pain and movement problems.

2017年1月6日 · Motor imagery is a form of therapy that can be used to strengthen the arms, hands, feet and legs which may be weakened by stroke. In motor imagery, we mentally rehearse the movement of the affected body parts, without ever …

What is Graded Motor Imagery? GMI is an effective treatment paradigm that is becoming increasingly used to address chronic pain and Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). Through "training your brain," graded motor imagery is able to aid in treating your pain and regaining function in a three-step process:

2024年2月19日 · MIT can improve upper limb motor function and daily activities of stroke patients, and the improvement effect of conventional rehabilitation therapy (CRT) combined with MIT is significantly higher than that of CRT alone.

Graded Motor Imagery is a sequence of strategies including laterality restoration (being able to identify left and right limbs), motor imagery and use of a mirror box. The therapeutic target is the process in the central nervous system broadly referred to central sensitivity.

2012年11月19日 · Graded motor imagery (GMI) is becoming increasingly used in the treatment of chronic pain conditions. The objective of this systematic review was to synthesize all evidence concerning the effects of GMI and its constituent components on chronic pain. Systematic searches were conducted in 10 electronic databases.

2017年5月10日 · Motor imagery is a cognitive process in which a subject only imagines completing a movement, without tensing any muscles (Figure 1 (a)) [2]. While motor imagery alone can improve motor performance [3], it is particularly effective when associated with physical practice [4] as compared to physical practice alone.

2020年1月5日 · This stage involves imagining movements without actually moving. Much like an athlete envisioning the movements before they do them, your patient will imagine movements of the affected hand without moving it. This activity activates the premotor cortex as well as the motor cortex, allowing the basis for graded motor imagery progression.

2020年9月14日 · Mirror Therapy, one of the steps of Graded Motor Imagery (GMI), is a relatively new technique for treating phantom limb pain. GMI can also help with control of a myoelectric prosthetic device for those with an upper limb amputation.

Graded motor imagery (GMI) is one treatment technique from the “top down” method designed to treat chronic pain. This technique attempts to sequentially normalize central processing to remediate chronic pain (Priganc & Stralka 2001). GMI is broken down into three stages, exercising your brain in different ways. It uses brain based learning.