Differences between kinematic synergies and muscle synergies during two-digit grasping [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 The large number of mechanical degrees of freedom of the hand is not fully exploited during actual movements such as grasping. Usually, angular movements in various joints tend to be coupled, and EMG activities in different hand muscles tend to be ...
Michele eTagliabue +4 more
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Muscle synergies in joystick manipulation. [PDF]
Front Physiol, 2023 Extracting muscle synergies from surface electromyographic signals (sEMGs) during exercises has been widely applied to evaluate motor control strategies. This study explores the relationship between upper-limb muscle synergies and the performance of joystick manipulation tasks.
Cai L +7 more
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THE NEURAL ORIGIN OF MUSCLE SYNERGIES [PDF]
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2013 Muscle synergies are neural coordinative structures that function to alleviate the computational burden associated with the control of movement and posture. In this commentary, we address two critical questions: the explicit encoding of muscle synergies
Emilio eBizzi, Vincent CK eCheung
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Empirical Evaluation of Voluntarily Activatable Muscle Synergies [PDF]
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2017 The muscle synergy hypothesis assumes that individual muscle synergies are independent of each other and voluntarily controllable. However, this assumption has not been empirically tested.
Shunta Togo +3 more
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Common muscle synergies for balance and walking [PDF]
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2013 Little is known about the integration of neural mechanisms for balance and locomotion. Muscle synergies have been studied independently in standing balance and walking, but not compared.
Stacie A Chvatal, Lena H Ting
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Dissecting muscle synergies in the task space. [PDF]
Elife, 2023 Abstract The muscle synergy is a guiding concept in motor control research that relies on the general notion of muscles ‘working together’ towards task performance. However, although the synergy concept has provided valuable insights into motor coordination, muscle interactions have not been fully characterised with respect to task ...
O'Reilly D, Delis I.
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Comparative analysis of muscle synergies in gait of stroke patients and healthy controls [PDF]
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceIntroductionThis study analyzed muscle synergies in subacute stroke patients’ gait, comparing paretic and non-paretic limbs with healthy individuals, and explored the structure and temporal activation of synergistic muscle activation patterns ...
Dimitrios-Sokratis Komaris +6 more
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Comparison of muscle synergies in walking and pedaling: the influence of rotation direction and speed [PDF]
Frontiers in NeuroscienceBackgroundUnderstanding the muscle synergies shared between pedaling and walking is crucial for elucidating the mechanisms of human motor control and establishing highly individualized rehabilitation strategies.
Junko Tsuchiya +7 more
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Can muscle synergies shed light on the mechanisms underlying motor gains in response to robot-assisted gait training in children with cerebral palsy? [PDF]
Journal of NeuroEngineering and RehabilitationBackground Children with cerebral palsy (CP) often experience gait impairments. Robot-assisted gait training (RGT) has been shown to have beneficial effects in this patient population.
Gloria P. Vergara-Diaz +9 more
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Spatiotemporal patterns of throwing muscle synergies in yips-affected baseball players [PDF]
Scientific Reports“Yips” are involuntary movements that interfere with the automatic execution of sports movements. However, how the coordination among the various muscles necessary for sports movements is impaired in athletes with yips remains to be fully understood ...
Toshiyuki Aoyama +6 more
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