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They can be interpreted as a direct support to mental practice that has been used empirically for more than 10 years, particularly in the sport context. A similar experimental design, adapted to brain-damaged patients, should logically contribute to improving recovery from motor deficits of central origin, by helping the patients to use alternative motor strategies and by improving efficiency of spared performance. The question of whether mental practice has any relevance to physiotherapy has not, to our present knowledge, been addressed experimentally. This might be due to the difficulty of evaluating the effectiveness of mental practice in groups of patients.
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