Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Are Muscle Synergies Useful for Stroke Rehabilitation?

Maybe something here?

Peter Levine has these four blog posts on synergy, so you can compare and use the best.  

I need to work on this yet since I still have some synergies, except that life and fun gets in the way of rehab. Happiness is the goal of life per Rupert Spira and therapy does not provide me with happiness. So for right now living life takes precedence.

How to Overcome Synergistic Movement After Stroke (When One Movement Leads to Many) from Flint Rehab

 The latest here:

Are Muscle Synergies Useful for Stroke Rehabilitation?

Highlights

Muscle synergy analyses capture changes in neuromuscular coordination post-stroke.

Synergies are a useful tool to assess motor impairments and rehabilitation efficacy.

Synergy-based rehabilitation would be an effective way to induce true recovery.

Simulation models help design objective synergy-based rehabilitation intervention.

Robotics: a beneficial way to apply the model-guided, synergy-based rehabilitation.

Abstract

Modular organization of human movement has been studied for several decades using muscle synergy analysis. Whether the reduction in control dimensionality calculated by muscle synergy analysis is of neural origin or only a mathematical construct remains controversial. Nonetheless, sufficient empirical evidence exists to support the potential utility of muscle synergy analysis for assessing and treating motor impairment. This paper reviews recent advances in the use of muscle synergy analysis to assess post-stroke motor impairment, assess stroke rehabilitation effectiveness, and design stroke rehabilitation approaches. Synergy-based rehabilitation strategies that attempt to correct impaired neuromuscular coordination have emerged only recently. Expansion of this promising area will likely require integration of muscle synergy concepts, patient-specific neuromusculoskeletal models, and rehabilitation robotics to identify optimal synergy changes and implement effective post-stroke training protocols that induce them.

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