Are muscle synergies useful for stroke rehabilitation?

YNG Hong, AN Ballekere, BJ Fregly, J Roh - Current Opinion in Biomedical …, 2021 - Elsevier
… were identified during walking [4] and cycling [14] in the paretic than in the nonparetic
lower limb of chronic and subacute stroke survivors, respectively. These results reflected an …

Lower limb muscle synergies during walking after stroke: a systematic review

T Van Criekinge, J Vermeulen… - Disability and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… of muscle synergies and the distribution of muscle weightings in stroke patients during gait.
Muscle synergies of the paretic side in stroke survivors did not always differ from those …

Alterations of muscle synergies during voluntary arm reaching movement in subacute stroke survivors at different levels of impairment

B Pan, Y Sun, B Xie, Z Huang, J Wu, J Hou… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
muscle synergies and result in abnormal movements. In this paper, the alterations of muscle
synergies in subacute stroke survivors … (EMG) data from 35 stroke survivors, ranging from …

Changes in leg cycling muscle synergies after training augmented by functional electrical stimulation in subacute stroke survivors: a pilot study

E Ambrosini, M Parati, E Peri, C De Marchis… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2020 - Springer
Muscle synergy analysis has been applied both in healthy controls and neurological … When
muscle synergy analysis has been applied on stroke survivors, several studies observed a …

[PDF][PDF] Muscle synergy analysis yields an efficient and physiologically relevant method of assessing stroke

T Funato, N Hattori, A Yozu, Q An, T Oya… - Brain …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… of posterior trunk muscle synergies in stroke survivors with … trunk muscle synergies may
have a strong influence on stroke … the synergies of stroke survivors with standard synergies, we …

Robotic assistance for upper limbs may induce slight changes in motor modules compared with free movements in stroke survivors: a cluster-based muscle synergy …

A Scano, A Chiavenna, M Malosio… - Frontiers in human …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
… how stroke survivors interact with robotic set-ups. In this paper, muscle synergy analysis was
… Methods: Twenty-two stroke survivors completed a session comprising a series of hand-to-…

Temporal features of muscle synergies in sit-to-stand motion reflect the motor impairment of post-stroke patients

N Yang, Q An, H Kogami, H Yamakawa… - … on Neural Systems …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stroke survivors often present sensorimotor impairments that limit their motor ability to
perform activities such as walking [4], standing [5], and STS motion [6]. To date, disability, …

Adapting to the mechanical properties and active force of an exoskeleton by altering muscle synergies in chronic stroke survivors

L Rinaldi, LF Yeung, PCH Lam… - … on Neural Systems …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… explores the application of muscle synergy analysis for assessing how chronic stroke survivors
adapt to the unpowered … Our stroke survivors adapted to the unpowered device by using …

Muscle synergies control during hand-reaching tasks in multiple directions post-stroke

S Israely, G Leisman, CC Machluf… - Frontiers in computational …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
… properties of muscle synergies in post-stroke individuals, compared to non-stroke individuals
… This might shed light on the impact cortical stroke has on spinal control mechanisms, and …

Alterations in intermuscular coordination underlying isokinetic exercise after a stroke and their implications on neurorehabilitation

JH Park, JH Shin, H Lee, J Roh, HS Park - Journal of NeuroEngineering …, 2021 - Springer
… coordination of chronic stroke survivors during three-… the isokinetic muscle synergies
between stroke survivors and … of the stroke-affected isokinetic muscle synergies (such as …