Interpreting signal amplitudes in surface electromyography studies in sport and rehabilitation sciences

AD Vigotsky, I Halperin, GJ Lehman… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a popular research tool in sport and rehabilitation
sciences. Common study designs include the comparison of sEMG amplitudes collected …

How to improve the muscle synergy analysis methodology?

NA Turpin, S Uriac, G Dalleau - European journal of applied physiology, 2021 - Springer
Muscle synergy analysis is increasingly used in domains such as neurosciences, robotics,
rehabilitation or sport sciences to analyze and better understand motor coordination. The …

Opensim moco: Musculoskeletal optimal control

CL Dembia, NA Bianco, A Falisse… - PLOS Computational …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Musculoskeletal simulations are used in many different applications, ranging from the
design of wearable robots that interact with humans to the analysis of patients with impaired …

Non-negative matrix factorisation is the most appropriate method for extraction of muscle synergies in walking and running

MF Rabbi, C Pizzolato, DG Lloyd, CP Carty… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Muscle synergies provide a simple description of a complex motor control mechanism.
Synergies are extracted from muscle activation patterns using factorisation methods. Despite …

What is an artificial muscle? A comparison of soft actuators to biological muscles

DR Higueras-Ruiz, K Nishikawa… - Bioinspiration & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Interest in emulating the properties of biological muscles that allow for fast adaptability and
control in unstructured environments has motivated researchers to develop new soft …

A systematic review on muscle synergies: from building blocks of motor behavior to a neurorehabilitation tool

RE Singh, K Iqbal, G White… - Applied bionics and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The central nervous system (CNS) is believed to utilize specific predefined modules, called
muscle synergies (MS), to accomplish a motor task. Yet questions persist about how the …

Immature spinal locomotor output in children with cerebral palsy

G Cappellini, YP Ivanenko, G Martino… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Detailed descriptions of gait impairments have been reported in cerebral palsy (CP), but it is
still unclear how maturation of the spinal motoneuron output is affected. Spatiotemporal …

Feasibility of muscle synergy outcomes in clinics, robotics, and sports: a systematic review

J Taborri, V Agostini, PK Artemiadis… - Applied bionics and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In the last years, several studies have been focused on understanding how the central
nervous system controls muscles to perform a specific motor task. Although it still remains an …

Neurologic correlates of gait abnormalities in cerebral palsy: implications for treatment

J Zhou, EE Butler, J Rose - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common movement disorder in children. A diagnosis of CP
is often made based on abnormal muscle tone or posture, a delay in reaching motor …

Dynamic motor control is associated with treatment outcomes for children with cerebral palsy

MH Schwartz, A Rozumalski… - … Medicine & Child …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To estimate the impact of dynamic motor control on treatment outcomes in children with
cerebral palsy. Method We used multiple regression on a retrospective cohort of 473 …