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
Introduction Muscle synergies have been proposed as a strategy employed by the central
nervous system to control movements. Muscle synergy analysis is a well-established …

[HTML][HTML] Muscle synergies in joystick manipulation

L Cai, S Yan, C Ouyang, T Zhang, J Zhu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Extracting muscle synergies from surface electromyographic signals (sEMGs) during
exercises has been widely applied to evaluate motor control strategies. This study explores …

Transferring sensor-based assessments to clinical practice: the case of muscle synergies

A Scano, V Lanzani, C Brambilla, A d'Avella - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Sensor-based assessments in medical practice and rehabilitation include the measurement
of physiological signals such as EEG, EMG, ECG, heart rate, and NIRS, and the recording of …

[HTML][HTML] Phasic and tonic muscle synergies are different in number, structure and sparseness

C Brambilla, M Russo, A d'Avella, A Scano - Human Movement Science, 2023 - Elsevier
In the last two decades, muscle synergies analysis has been commonly used to assess the
neurophysiological mechanisms underlying human motor control. Several synergy models …

[HTML][HTML] EMG feature extraction and muscle selection for continuous upper limb movement regression

L Quesada, D Verdel, O Bruneau, B Berret… - … Signal Processing and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Achieving a versatile control of exoskeletons or prostheses requires accurate, robust and
fast predictions of upcoming human movements. Electromyographic (EMG) signals are …

Muscle synergy-based functional electrical stimulation reduces muscular fatigue in post-stroke patients: a systematic comparison

S Bala, VY Vishnu, D Joshi - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Muscle synergy-based functional electrical stimulation had improved movement kinematics
instantly and in long-term use in post-stroke patients. However, the therapeutic benefits and …

The number and structure of muscle synergies depend on the number of recorded muscles: a pilot simulation study with opensim

C Brambilla, A Scano - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The muscle synergy approach is used to evaluate motor control and to quantitatively
determine the number and structure of the modules underlying movement. In experimental …

Evidence of synergy coordination patterns of upper-limb motor control in stroke patients with mild and moderate impairment

K Zhao, C He, W **ang, Y Zhou, Z Zhang, J Li… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive analysis of task-specific hand kinematic, muscle and force synergies

M Lapresa, V Corradini, A Iacca, FS di Luzio… - Biocybernetics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Synergies were demonstrated to exist in the kinematic, force and muscular domains, and
their task-specificity and subject-specificity was also highlighted in literature. Despite that, no …

Subject-independent continuous estimation of sEMG-based joint angles using both multisource domain adaptation and BP neural network

H Li, S Guo, H Wang, D Bu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuous angle estimation from surface electromyography (sEMG) is crucial for robot-
assisted upper limb rehabilitation. The sEMG-based control provides an optimal way to …