Telerehabilitation-based Motor Imagery Training in Children With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

"Motor imagery is defined as the mental thinking of a movement without actual movement being revealed. Many of the currently available physiotherapy and rehabilitation approaches are designed to stimulate damaged motor neural connections through neuroplasticity.~based on real movements. Studies have shown that similar brain regions are activated during motor imagery and real movement. By repeatedly visualizing the same movement, people can improve their motor activity skills such as lifting weights, playing the piano or performing surgery. These findings suggest that motor imagery provides motor learning by strengthening synaptic connections depending on activity."

The telerehabilitation application will be carried out by video conference method, one of the image-based telerehabilitation technologies. The telerehabilitation-based physiotherapy program will be administered to both Group 1 and Group 2 children by a physiotherapist experienced in the physiotherapy of neuromuscular diseases, excluding the researchers who performed the randomization and evaluations.