These declines in balance and motor performance may explain the increased incidence of falls in people with dementia, and have been shown to be a predictive factor for people with dementia needing permanent skilled nursing facility admission [ 18].
"It was a poor performance," explained Nicol.
However, other studies suggest that deviated motor performance might better be explained by the influence of pain-related cognitions [ 5, 6].
For a more theoretical viewpoint, we postulate that moving while imagining may have emphasized the degree of behavioral matching, and possibly the functional equivalence between MI and motor performance, which may contribute to explain the positive effects of dynamic imagery.
In general, our findings indicate that practice-related changes in motor performance might only partly be explained by changes in quantitative myoelectric parameters (i.e., agonist and antagonist EMG amplitude and duration).
The observed small associations imply that practice-related changes in motor performance can only partly be explained by quantitative myoelectric measures, and thus, we recommend to additionally include qualitative measures of muscle activity (e.g., timing of muscle activity, level of coactivation) and other biomechanical variables (i.e., kinetics, kinematics) in future investigations.
These differences, however, may have only limited impact during head rotation and cannot explain the decreased motor performance in an aiming task observed in patients with TTH.
The motor performance deficit in presymptomatic individuals could be explained if the neurodegeneration starts years before the clinical onset.
Our findings indicate that practice-related adaptations in motor performance of healthy persons can only partly be explained by changes in quantitative myoelectric measures.
Hanging Wire Test (HWT) was performed to evaluate motor performance.
