Abstract The Fugl-Meyer Assessment is widely used to test motor function in stroke
survivors. In the Fugl-Meyer Assessment, stroke survivors perform several movement tasks …

The central nervous system produces movements by activating specifically programmed
muscle synergies that are also altered with injuries in the brain, such as stroke. In this study …

Objectives: Previous studies showed that the central nervous system (CNS) controls
movements by recruiting a low-dimensional set of modules, usually referred to as muscle …

Background: Recent experimental evidence has indicated that the motor system coordinates
muscle activations through a linear combination of muscle synergies that are specified at the …

Motor system uses muscle synergies as a modular organization to simplify the control of
movements. Motor cortical impairments, such as stroke and spinal cord injuries, disrupt the …

We present a method called muscle synergy analysis, which can offer clinicians insight into
both underlying neural strategies for movement and functional outcomes of muscle activity …

Previous studies in neurologically intact subjects have shown that motor coordination can be
described by task-dependent combinations of a few muscle synergies, defined here as a …

In this paper, we present a novel muscle synergy extraction method based on multivariate
curve resolution–alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) to overcome the limitation of the …

Significant functional impairment of the hand is commonly observed in stroke survivors. Our
previous studies suggested that the inability to modulate muscle coordination patterns …

Objective. Stroke affects the expression of muscle synergies underlying motor control, most
notably in patients with poorer motor function. The majority of studies on muscle synergies …