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NCT Number: NCT04102306

Assessing Motor Imagery Ability of Tongue and Mouth in Subjects With and With no Temporomandibular Disorders

Temporomandibular disorder (TMD) is the symptomatic expression of a muscular or an articular impairment at the manducatory tract. TMD affects between 30 to 65% of the population with a higher prevalence for young women. The patients with DTM report a decrease of their personal, social and professional quality of life. Treatment usually relies on physical therapy. Among the different technics that can be used in physical therapy, there is growing evidence advocating the efficacy of using motor imagery (i.e. imagining a movement with no concomitant physical execution) during rehabilitation. It has also been shown that the benefits of practicing motor imagery depend on the ability (i.e., the higher the ability, the greater the benefits). However, there is no investigation of the motor imagery ability of the tongue and mouth movements conditioning the use of motor imagery during TMD rehabilitation. The objective of the study is to investigate the ability of imagining tongue and mouth movements using the Tongue and Mouth Imagery Questionnaire (TMIQ) as compare to the gold-standard Kinesthetic and Visual Imagery Questionnaire (KVIQ - Malouin et al., 2007).

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Key information

Conditions

Temporomandibular Disorder Craniomandibular Disorders Jaw Diseases Joint Diseases Mandibular Diseases Motor Imagery Muscular Diseases Musculoskeletal Diseases Stomatognathic Diseases Temporomandibular Joint Disorders

Age range

18 year–75 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Cabinet Saint Alexandre

Lyon, 69005, France

About this study

Principal objective:

Assess the validity construct of the Tongue and Mouth Imagery Questionnaire (TMIQ) as compare to the gold-standard Kinesthetic and Visual Imagery Questionnaire (KVIQ - Malouin et al., 2007), both measuring the motor imagery vividness.

Secondary objectives:

  • Assess the reliability of the TMIQ using a test-retest.
  • Assess the temporal coupling (i.e., the ratio between imagined and physically practiced movement) and compare these ratios for the TMIQ and KVIQ.
  • Investigate the effect of TMD by comparing the vividness scores of TMIQ for respectively subject with and with no TMD.
  • Investigate the effect of TMD by comparing the vividness scores of KVIQ for respectively subject with and with no TMD.
  • Investigate the effect of TMD by comparing the temporal coupling scores of TMIQ for respectively subject with and with no TMD.
  • Investigate the effect of TMD by comparing the temporal coupling scores of KVIQ for respectively subject with and with no TMD.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • age between 18 and 75 years
  • A voluntary individual who has given informed consent after receiving clear, fair and appropriate information about the study.

For DTM group participants

  • inclusion during the DTM rehabilitation in the physical therapy firm "Cabinet Saint Alexandre".
  • beneficiary of the social security scheme

Exclusion criteria

  • The presence of a short tongue brake (Marchesan, 2005)
  • Lingual immaturity evaluated by the Tardieu test (Jouannaud et al. 1972)
  • Patients who had orthognathic surgery within 6 months post- operative, or facial fractures according to the same deadlines
  • The presence of peripheral facial palsy
  • Current participation in another research whose objective would be the evaluation of a therapeutic, drug or not, introducing an experimental bias.

Treatment and study plan

reliability and validity construct of the TMIQ

Other

comparison of the TMIQ to the gold-standard questionnaire (KVIQ) and test-retest

Primary outcomes

  1. vividness score of imagined movements of the TMIQ for the DTM group

    Time frame: at study inclusion, i.e day 1

    Averaged vividness score (using a 5-point likert scale, 1=minimum vividness, 5=maximal vividness) for the TMIQ for the DTM group

  2. vividness score of imagined movements of the TMIQ for the CTL group

    Time frame: at study inclusion, i.e day 1

    Averaged vividness score (using a 5-point likert scale, 1=minimum vividness, 5=maximal vividness) for the TMIQ for the DTM group

  3. vividness score of imagined movements of the KVIQ for the DTM group

    Time frame: at study inclusion, i.e day 1

    Averaged vividness score (using a 5-point likert scale, 1=minimum vividness, 5=maximal vividness) for the KVIQ for the DTM group

  4. vividness score of imagined movements of the KVIQ for the CTL group

    Time frame: at study inclusion, i.e day 1

    Averaged vividness score (using a 5-point likert scale, 1=minimum vividness, 5=maximal vividness) for the KVIQ for the DTM group

Secondary outcomes

  1. vividness score of imagined movements of the TMIQ for the DTM group

    Time frame: at study completion, between 8 days to 45 days after inclusion

    Averaged vividness score (using a 5-point likert scale, 1=minimum vividness, 5=maximal vividness) for the TMIQ for the DTM group

  2. vividness score of imagined movements of the TMIQ for the CTL group

    Time frame: at study completion, between 8 days to 45 days after inclusion

    Averaged vividness score (using a 5-point likert scale, 1=minimum vividness, 5=maximal vividness) for the TMIQ for the DTM group

  3. Temporal coupling to imagined movements of the TMIQ for the DTM group

    Time frame: at study completion, between 8 days to 45 days after inclusion

    Computation of ratio between imagined and physically practiced movements measured during the TMIQ for the DTM group

  4. Temporal coupling to imagined movements of the TMIQ for the CTL group

    Time frame: at study inclusion, i.e day 1

    Computation of ratio between imagined and physically practiced movements measured during the TMIQ for the DTM group

  5. Temporal coupling to imagined movements of the TMIQ for the CTL group

    Time frame: at study completion, between 8 days to 45 days after inclusion

    Computation of ratio between imagined and physically practiced movements measured during the TMIQ for the DTM group

Other outcomes

  1. mental representation of the maximal opening of the mouth for the DTM group

    Time frame: at study inclusion, i.e day 1

    comparison of the score (5-point likert Scale, 1= minimal opening, 5=maximal opening) self-reported by the participant after imagination of maximal mouth opening as compared to the score of the physical therapist after the physical execution of mouth opening by the participant during the TMIQ for the DTM group

  2. mental representation of the maximal opening of the mouth for the CTL group

    Time frame: at study inclusion, i.e day 1

    comparison of the score (5-point likert Scale, 1= minimal opening, 5=maximal opening) self-reported by the participant after imagination of maximal mouth opening as compared to the score of the physical therapist after the physical execution of mouth opening by the participant during the TMIQ for the CTL group

  3. Accuracy of tongue pointing against the wood examination stick for the DTM group

    Time frame: at study inclusion, i.e day 1

    Measure the surface of the tongue print after that participant was requested to point as accurately as possible while keeping the tongue sharp against the wood examination stick for the DTM group

  4. Accuracy of tongue pointing against the wood examination stick for the CTL group

    Time frame: at study inclusion, i.e day 1

    Measure the surface of the tongue print after that participant was requested to point as accurately as possible while keeping the tongue sharp against the wood examination stick for the CTL group

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Cabinet de Kinesitherapie SCM Saint-Alexandre

Industry

Collaborators

  • Hospices Civils de Lyon
  • University of Lyon

Registry information

Official study title

Assessing Motor Imagery Using the Tongue and Mouth Imagery Questionnaire (TMIQ) in Patients With Temporomandibular Disorder and Healthy Control Subjects: a Reliability and Construct Validity Study

Acronym: TMIQ

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Sep 25, 2019
Registry last updated
Mar 6, 2020

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