Identifying the ideal screening tool for the prescription of imagery-based therapies post-stroke

One therapy that we know can help with recovery after stroke is called motor imagery. Motor imagery is when you imagine yourself doing a task, but without actually doing it. However, brain damage from stroke can affect your ability to do imagery. So, to make sure imagery will help with recovery after stroke, we need to be sure that a person can do imagery. If they cannot do imagery, it will not help. While there are many tools that test imagery ability, we do not know which tool is best. To figure out which tool is the best, we can compare the tools against how well we learn through imagery. This study was done to figure out which tool should be used to test imagery ability after stroke. We compared each tool with how well we learn a new skill through imagery. We compared four different tools. We showed that using the tools together provided the best overall test of imagery ability. One of the tools also provided the best 'quick picture' of imagery ability. We suggest that this tool is the best one to use after stroke. This research helps us identify which patients should use imagery for recovery after stroke.