… muscle synergies are used to organize muscles in functional groups. In this chapter, we
present the theory hypothesis of muscle synergies … we describe its practical implications in the …

… can be represented as muscle synergies—profiles that constrain how groups of muscles are
… of the identity of the muscles belonging to a muscle synergy and the synergy’s time course …

… have implications regarding the viability of muscle synergy as a … activity according to the
principles of optimal control theory; to … theory has been shown to reproduce patterns of muscle …

… Another aspect of the muscle synergy hypothesis concerns its implications to the efficacy of
control. As alluded to above, the best performance that the CNS can achieve is when it uses …

… 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 …

… study further reinforce this theory since we could recover similar synergies as the experimental
… As the applications of muscle synergy analysis reach the clinical realm, it is even more …

… and synergy analysis limit … muscle synergies in clinical environment is needed to i) summarize
the main findings so far, ii) highlight the barriers limiting their use in clinical applications, …

… Muscle synergies have been described as a neural strategy to … theoretical framework
underlying the identification of muscle … physiological origin and meaning of muscle synergies is …

… But a major criticism on the theory of synergy-based control of muscles is that muscle … (p
= 0.055) whereas statistical significance was found for only two synergies when using all …

… by a small set of muscle synergies. However, apparent muscle synergy structures could arise
… An implication is that changes in patterns of local somatosensory feedback associated with …