Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) disrupts spinal and supraspinal pathways, and this process is reflected in changes in surface electromyography (sEMG). sEMG is an informative …
Foot drop and toe walking are frequent concerns in children with cerebral palsy. The main underlying cause of these problems is early damage and lack of maturation of the …
Restoration of walking ability is an area of great interest in the rehabilitation of persons with spinal cord injury. Because many cortical, subcortical, and spinal neural centers contribute …
FO Barroso, D Torricelli, E Bravo-Esteban… - Frontiers in human …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Background: After incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI), patients suffer important sensorimotor impairments, such as abnormal locomotion patterns and spasticity. Complementary to …
Coordination of functionally coupled muscles is a key aspect of movement execution. Demands on coordinative control increase with the number of involved muscles and joints …
The development of spinal hyper-reflexia as part of the spasticity syndrome represents one of the major complications associated with chronic spinal traumatic injury (SCI). The primary …
Intermuscular coherence allows the investigation of common input to muscle groups. Although beta-band (15–30 Hz) intermuscular coherence is well understood as originating …
BR Aravamuthan, S Gandham, AB Young… - Neurobiology of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of childhood motor disability, manifesting most often as spasticity and/or dystonia. Spasticity and dystonia are often co-morbid …
Adaptation of arm reaching in a novel force field involves co-contraction of upper limb muscles, but it is not known how the co-ordination of multiple muscle activation is …