The case for and against muscle synergies

MC Tresch, A Jarc - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2009 - Elsevier
… the limb (such as the global limb angle or orientation). This interpretation places muscle
synergies as … Finally, a different explanation for muscle synergies is that they reflect a relatively …

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
Muscle synergy analysis is a well-established framework to … including signal processing
and synergy analysis limit the … works on upper limb muscle synergies in clinical environment …

Common muscle synergies for balance and walking

SA Chvatal, LH Ting - Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
… Here, we hypothesized that a common set of lower-limb muscle synergies mediate
reactive balance and walking. Recent studies during perturbed locomotion demonstrate that …

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

T Van Criekinge, J Vermeulen… - Disability and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
limb muscle synergies … of muscle synergies after upper limb rehabilitation suggests improved
motor control for patients with low motor-function [Citation13]. Therefore, muscles synergies

Muscle synergies for the control of single-limb stance with and without visual information in young individuals

L Labanca, M Ghislieri, M Knaflitz, G Barone… - BMC Sports Science …, 2021 - Springer
… to investigate muscle synergies in lower limb and back muscles during a single-limb stance
task … -limb stance muscle synergies. Studies on the effects of visual feedback on synergistic …

Shared and specific muscle synergies in natural motor behaviors

A d'Avella, E Bizzi - Proceedings of the national academy of …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
muscle synergies during natural behaviors of the frog still needs to be fully characterized, one
would expect that, if the synergies implement whole-limb … encode global limb parameters. …

Evidence for basic units of upper limb muscle synergies underlying a variety of complex human manipulations

H Saito, H Yokoyama, A Sasaki… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
muscle synergies for the trunk and lower limbs previously (8) and those for the upper limbs
… Thus, the rationale for the analysis of basic units of muscle synergies is to comprehensively …

The effect of arm weight support on upper limb muscle synergies during reaching movements

M Coscia, VCK Cheung, P Tropea, A Koenig… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2014 - Springer
… The analysis of muscle synergies allowed us to identify a modular organization underlying
… on muscle synergies in stroke survivors and other patients who could benefit from upper limb

Alterations in upper limb muscle synergy structure in chronic stroke survivors

J Roh, WZ Rymer, EJ Perreault… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
… activation patterns could be reconstructed by combinations of a few muscle synergies
muscles within individual muscle synergies. In stroke survivors, as in controls, two of the synergies

Neuromechanics of muscle synergies during cycling

JM Wakeling, T Horn - Journal of neurophysiology, 2009 - journals.physiology.org
… However, some of the variations in the activation patterns that were elicited in this study
appear to be directly linked to limb mechanics, muscle architecture and fiber-type composition. It …