Motor imagery and its effect on complex regional pain syndrome: an integrative review

• Main Authors: Nélio Silva de Souza (Author), Ana Carolina Gomes Martins (Author), Victor Hugo do Vale Bastos (Author), Marco Orsini (Author), Marco Antônio A. Leite (Author), Silmar Teixeira (Author), Bruna Velasques (Author), Pedro Ribeiro (Author), Juliana Bittencourt (Author), André Palma da Cunha Matta (Author), Pedro Moreira Filho (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The motor imagery (MI) has been proposed as a treatment in the complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS-1), since it seems to promote a brain reorganization effect on sensory- motor areas of pain perception. The aim of this paper is to investigate, through an integrative critical review, the infl...