Indian Journal of Medical and Health Sciences

Graded Motor Imagery (GMI) is essentially a brain based treatment, targeting the activation of different brain regions in a graded manner. GMI is a three stage treatment programme comprising of Left Right discrimination training, Explicit Motor imagery and Mirror therapy. This review presents the background and evidence of Graded Motor Imagery and provides an overview of studies showing the effect of Left Right discrimination, Motor imagery, Mirror therapy and GMI. Graded motor imagery is used in the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome, phantom limb pain and chronic pain. Complex regional pain syndrome type 1, phantom limb pain and stroke show identical aspects of symptomatic presentation and pattern of cortical reorganisation. Although, supported evidence is available on the effect of Mirror therapy and Motor imagery on Stroke, there is need to explore the effectiveness of GMI in future experimental trials. 

Keywords: Motor imagery program; Mirror therapy; Mental imagery.

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Background: Medical social work is a sub-discipline of social work, also known as Hospital social work. The social worker works with patients and their families in need of psychosocial help. Medical social workers typically work on an interdisciplinary team with professionals of other disciplines such as medicine, nursing, physical, occupational, speech and recreational therapy etc. Thus to assess the importance of social worker in hospital a study was conducted to determine the “Role of social worker in hospital”. Objectives: To study the duties and responsibilities of a social worker in a hospital ; To study patients perception towards social worker. Results: The study reveals roles played by social worker in the hospital as guide, expert and therapist. When assessed the perception of patients towards social worker it was found that the patients were satisfied. 

Keywords: Social worker; Duties and responsibilities; Perception.