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 …

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 …

Shared muscle synergies in human walking and cycling

FO Barroso, D Torricelli, JC Moreno… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
The motor system may rely on a modular organization (muscle synergies activated in time)
to execute different tasks. We investigated the common control features of walking and …

Intra-subject and inter-subject movement variability quantified with muscle synergies in upper-limb reaching movements

K Zhao, Z Zhang, H Wen, A Scano - Biomimetics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Quantifying movement variability is a crucial aspect for clinical and laboratory investigations
in several contexts. However, very few studies have assessed, in detail, the intra-subject …

Changes in leg cycling muscle synergies after training augmented by functional electrical stimulation in subacute stroke survivors: a pilot study

E Ambrosini, M Parati, E Peri, C De Marchis… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2020 - Springer
Background Muscle synergies analysis can provide a deep understanding of motor
impairment after stroke and of changes after rehabilitation. In this study, the neuro …

[HTML][HTML] Muscle Synergy Analysis as a Tool for Assessing the Effectiveness of Gait Rehabilitation Therapies: A Methodological Review and Perspective

D Borzelli, C De Marchis, A Quercia, P De Pasquale… - Bioengineering, 2024 - mdpi.com
According to the modular hypothesis for the control of movement, muscles are recruited in
synergies, which capture muscle coordination in space, time, or both. In the last two …

An objective, information-based approach for selecting the number of muscle synergies to be extracted via non-negative matrix factorization

S Ranaldi, C De Marchis, G Severini… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Muscle synergy analysis is a useful tool for the evaluation of the motor control strategies and
for the quantification of motor performance. Among the parameters that can be extracted …

Intermuscular coherence contributions in synergistic muscles during pedaling

C De Marchis, G Severini, AM Castronovo… - Experimental Brain …, 2015 - Springer
The execution of rhythmical motor tasks requires the control of multiple skeletal muscles by
the Central Nervous System (CNS), and the neural mechanisms according to which the CNS …

Shared and task‐specific muscle synergies of Nordic walking and conventional walking

G Boccia, C Zoppirolli, L Bortolan… - … Journal of Medicine …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Nordic walking is a form of walking that includes a poling action, and therefore an additional
subtask, with respect to conventional walking. The aim of this study was to assess whether …

Reorganization of muscle coordination underlying motor learning in cycling tasks

D Torricelli, C De Marchis, A d'Avella… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The hypothesis of modular control, which stands on the existence of muscle synergies as
building blocks of muscle coordination, has been investigated in a great variety of motor …