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

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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:

1. Assess the reliability of the TMIQ using a test-retest.
2. Assess the temporal coupling (i.e., the ratio between imagined and physically practiced movement) and compare these ratios for the TMIQ and KVIQ.
3. Investigate the effect of TMD by comparing the vividness scores of TMIQ for respectively subject with and...

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Eligibility criteria

• 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.