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 …

The role of muscle synergies in myoelectric control: trends and challenges for simultaneous multifunction control

M Ison, P Artemiadis - Journal of neural engineering, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Myoelectric control is filled with potential to significantly change human–robot interaction
due to the ability to non-invasively measure human motion intent. However, current control …

The neural origin of muscle synergies

E Bizzi, VCK Cheung - Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Muscle synergies are neural coordinative structures that function to alleviate the
computational burden associated with the control of movement and posture. In this …

Common muscle synergies for balance and walking

SA Chvatal, LH Ting - Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Little is known about the integration of neural mechanisms for balance and locomotion.
Muscle synergies have been studied independently in standing balance and walking, but …

Alterations in upper limb muscle synergy structure in chronic stroke survivors

J Roh, WZ Rymer, EJ Perreault… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
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 …

Intuitive, online, simultaneous, and proportional myoelectric control over two degrees-of-freedom in upper limb amputees

N Jiang, H Rehbaum, I Vujaklija… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an approach for online simultaneous and proportional myoelectric control of
two degrees-of-freedom (DoF) of the wrist, using surface electromyographic signals. The …

The forces generated by agonist muscles during isometric contractions arise from motor unit synergies

A Del Vecchio, CM Germer, TM Kinfe… - Journal of …, 2023 - jneurosci.org
The purpose of our study was to identify the low-dimensional latent components, defined
hereafter as motor unit modes, underlying the discharge rates of the motor units in two knee …

Motor modules of human locomotion: influence of EMG averaging, concatenation, and number of step cycles

AS Oliveira, L Gizzi, D Farina… - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Locomotion can be investigated by factorization of electromyographic (EMG) signals, eg,
with non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). This approach is a convenient concise …

Extracting signals robust to electrode number and shift for online simultaneous and proportional myoelectric control by factorization algorithms

S Muceli, N Jiang, D Farina - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Previous research proposed the extraction of myoelectric control signals by linear
factorization of multi-channel electromyogram (EMG) recordings from forearm muscles. This …

Is interindividual variability of EMG patterns in trained cyclists related to different muscle synergies?

F Hug, NA Turpin, A Guével… - Journal of applied …, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
Our aim was to determine whether muscle synergies are similar across trained cyclists (and
thus whether the same locomotor strategies for pedaling are used), despite interindividual …