Muscle synergies: implications for clinical evaluation and rehabilitation of movement

S Safavynia, G Torres-Oviedo… - Topics in spinal cord …, 2011 - meridian.allenpress.com
muscle synergy analysis, which can offer clinicians insight into both underlying neural
strategies for movement and functional outcomes of muscle … of clinical tests focus on evaluating

Muscle synergies in clinical practice: Theoretical and practical implications

D Torricelli, F Barroso, M Coscia, C Alessandro… - Emerging Therapies in …, 2016 - Springer
… which several a few muscle synergies are used to organize muscles in functional groups…
muscle synergies under from a simplified point of view and we describe its practical implications

[HTML][HTML] Muscle synergies for evaluating upper limb in clinical applications: A systematic review

K Zhao, Z Zhang, H Wen, B Liu, J Li, A d'Avella… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
review that summarizes methods and main findings of previous works on upper limb muscle
synergies in clinical … the barriers limiting their use in clinical applications, and iii) suggest …

Muscle synergies characterizing human postural responses

G Torres-Oviedo, LH Ting - Journal of neurophysiology, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
… a muscle synergy as a group of muscles activated in synchrony with fixed relative gains;
thus a synergy represents a muscle … We investigated whether a few muscle synergies could …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of musculoskeletal pain disorders on muscle synergies—A systematic review

BXW Liew, A Del Vecchio, D Falla - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
muscle synergy analysis in MSK pain disorders, this review included studies investigating
both clinical … The findings of the present review have three clinical implications, each related to …

Associations between muscle synergies and treatment outcomes in cerebral palsy are robust across clinical centers

BR Shuman, M Goudriaan, K Desloovere… - Archives of physical …, 2018 - Elsevier
… during gait using muscle synergy analysis. Regression analysis was used to evaluate whether
… 2 by increasing the effect sizes of treatment and pretreatment GDI while decreasing the …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of functional correlation of task-specific muscle synergies with motor performance in patients poststroke

S Li, C Zhuang, CM Niu, Y Bao, Q Xie, N Lan - Frontiers in Neurology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
… (33, 40, 41) into quantitative metrics that may facilitate the clinical evaluation of patient’s
motor functions with insights into neuromuscular … Further Implications for Neurorehabilitation …

[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
muscle synergies underlying the entire upper extremity FMA test (which includes 37 task
items) and re-evaluate each task item according to muscle … we evaluated statistical significance

How are muscle synergies affected by electromyography pre-processing?

P Kieliba, P Tropea, E Pirondini… - … on Neural Systems …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
effect of decreasing the variance accounted for by a set number of synergies and affected
individual muscle … active and inactive muscles but had an unpredictable effect on the ISS. The …

Approaches to revealing the neural basis of muscle synergies: a review and a critique

VCK Cheung, K Seki - Journal of neurophysiology, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
… modules representable as muscle synergies. Identification of muscle synergies has hitherto
relied on … Recent studies have attempted to validate the neural basis of the muscle synergies