Using Recognise has been shown to reduce pain, improve performance and assist with rehabilitation in a range of complex pain, and injury states, when used as part of a Graded Motor Imagery programme. Hand | Foot | Shoulder | Knee | Back | Neck With patience, persistence and often lots of hard work, GMI gives new hope for treatment outcomes. Graded Motor Imagery (GMI) offers a novel three stage synaptic exercise process for neuropathic pain involving left/right discrimination, imagined movements and mirror therapy. We recommend that anybody with a chronic pain state learns more about the GMI process and talks to their clinician about options to include brain training exercises as part of a comprehensive rehabilitation programme.įinally! A handbook arising from the last 15 years of neuroscience, clinical trials and clinical reasoning science is here for both clinicians and pain sufferers. The Graded Motor Imagery Handbook - Updated 2019! If you are a clinician, or if you would like to talk to your clinician about our course, view the course trailer and our course schedule. We also offer a Graded Motor Imagery course for clinicians.
These techniques are delivered sequentially but require a flexible approach from the patient and clinician to move forwards, backwards and sideways in the treatment process to suit the individual. The three different treatment techniques include left/right discrimination training, explicit motor imagery exercises and mirror therapy. We now know that your brain is adaptable and changeable throughout your entire life and by exercising your brain in measured and monitored steps, which increase as progress is made, GMI can treat difficult and ongoing pain problems. mirrors are cheap and you may not need drugs. You are now exercising your left hand in the brain, particularly if you start to move your right hand. If you put your left hand behind a mirror and right hand in front, you can trick your brain into believing that the reflection of your right hand in the mirror is your left. This is why sports people imagine an activity before they do it.
This is most likely because 25 percent of the neurones in your brain are 'mirror neurones' and start firing when you think of moving or even watch someone else move.īy imagining movements, you use similar brain areas as you would when you actually move. Imagined movements can actually be hard work if you are in pain.
Explicit motor imageryĮssentially thinking about moving without actually moving. The good news is that the brain is plastic and changeable, if given the right training for long enough. This ability appears to be important for normal recovery from pain. The ability to identify left or right images of their painful body part(s)
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