The Controlled Clinical Research Of Mental Imagery Therapy To Stroke Patients With Hemiplegia On Balance And Fall

ObjectiveImplementing mental imagery, based on the conventional rehabilitation training to stroke patients with hemiplegia, to observe effect of improving balance ability, fall risk and activities of daily living.MethodsData were collected in rehabilitation section of hospital in Jinzhou City from February,2011to February,2012. Divided the participants into two groups----experimental group and control group,40each group. Before intervention, evaluated two groups about balance ability, fall risk and activities of daily living(ADL), and so forth. Patients of the two groups implemented conventional rehabilitation training, while patients of experimental group were given added intervention----mental imagery therapy. Six weeks later, re-evaluated balance ability, fall risk and ADL of both groups. Based on this, evaluated whether mental imagery is available for improving balance ability and preventing fall. Two sample t-test was used between groups, while self-paired t-test was used inside groups for statistics analyzing. Data was processed through SPSS17.0software. Inspection level is setted as a=0.05, when P<0.05, it is significance in statistics. Results1.Balance ability comparison:Compare balance ability between two groups before intervention, differences are not significance in statistics(P>0.05). Through comparison in groups before and after intervention, the differences(d) between two groups show the improved degree of balance ability of experimental group is higher than control group(P<0.01).2.Fall risk comparison:Compare fall risk between two groups before intervention, differences are not significance in statistics(P>0.05). Comparison in groups before and after intervention, the differences(d) shows the decreased degree of fall risk of experimental group is higher than control group(P<0.05).3.ADL comparison:Comparing balance ability between two groups before intervention, differences are not significance in statistics(P>0.05). However, comparison in groups before and after intervention, the differences(d) show the improved degree of ADL of experimental group is higher than control group(P<0.01).Conclusions1.Mental imagery can improve balance ability of rehabilitation of stroke patients with hemiplegia.2.Mental imagery can decrease possibilities of fall risk of rehabilitation of stroke patients with hemiplegia.3.Mental imagery can improve ADL of rehabilitation of stroke patients with hemiplegia.