Sentence examples for mirror training from inspiring English sources

Mirror training (Ramachandran, Rogers-Ramachandran, & Cobb, 1995) consists in having patients watch movements of a mirror image of their existing/unaffected limb appearing in the position of their amputated/affected limb.

Mirror training and movement imagery have been demonstrated to be effective in treating several clinical conditions, such as phantom limb pain, stroke-induced hemiparesis, and complex regional pain syndrome.

In respect to mirror training, these approaches can be used to transpose the movements of the existing/unaffected limb to a simulation of the absent or dysfunctional limb (Eynard, Meyer, & Bouakaz, 2005; Murray et al., 2007; O'Neill, de Paor, MacLachlan, & McDarby, 2003).

Hamzei et al. recently proposed a connectivity model where the illusion of bimanual hand movement during mirror training (MTr) promoted functional coupling between each premotor region and the supplementary motor area (SMA) ipsilateral to the untrained hand, which in turn showed an increased functional interaction with the ipsilateral sensory motor cortex (SMC) [ 21].

Neither the focal study by Catmur et al. [ 9], nor any other study, has examined the effects of counter-mirror training on indices of action understanding.

Similar 'counter-mirror' training effects have also been observed in behavioural paradigms (e.g. [ 12, 13], see also [ 14, 15] for 'logically related' activations that may have been generated through naturally occurring non-matching experience).

Embracing the idea that counter-mirror training reconfigures the MNS making it responsive to the sight of one action and the execution of a different action he reasoned that, if the MNS contributes to action understanding, this reconfiguration should have an impact on action understanding.

Stringers and other reporters — "legs" in the language of the trade — passed the night huddled in their cars with rear-view mirrors trained toward the high-rise building's marble-floored entrance.

The usual mirror-training approaches use arbitrary movements, such as closing and opening the fist, upon verbal instruction.

The finger flexion task is a more sophisticated version of the hand-closing/opening task used in most mirror-training implementations.

Such AR- or VR-based mirror-training systems hold several potential advantages, ranging from increased flexibility in the features of the presented limb to the possibility of conveniently and accurately tracking training progress.