Neural control of movement stability: Lessons from studies of neurological patients

ML Latash, X Huang - Neuroscience, 2015 - Elsevier
The concept of synergy provides a theoretical framework for movement stability resulting
from the neural organization of multiple elements (digits, muscles, etc.) that all contribute to …

Review of upper extremity passive joint impedance identification in people with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

SJ Filius, K Papa, J Harlaar - Journal of NeuroEngineering and …, 2025 - Springer
Abstract Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) progressively leads to loss of limb function
due to muscle weakness. The incurable nature of the disease shifts the focus to improving …

Expertise, teleoperation, and task constraints affect the speed–curvature–torsion power law in RAMIS

Y Sharon, I Nisky - Journal of Medical Robotics Research, 2018 - World Scientific
Quantitative characterization of surgical movements can improve the quality of patient care
by informing the development of new training protocols for surgeons, and the design and …

Grasping an object at floor-level: Is movement strategy a matter of age?

MA Gilles, P Wild - Applied ergonomics, 2018 - Elsevier
Bending down to pick things up off the floor is something that we do every day. This
multisegment task can be done in a considerable number of postural configurations …

Do age and work pace affect variability when performing a repetitive light assembly task?

MA Gilles, C Gaudez, J Savin, A Remy, O Remy… - Applied Ergonomics, 2022 - Elsevier
This study examined whether a repetitive light assembly task could be performed according
to different movement sequences identified as ways of doing (WoD), and whether the age of …

What can spatiotemporal characteristics of movements in RAMIS tell Us?

Y Sharon, I Nisky - arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.05818, 2017 - arxiv.org
Quantitative characterization of surgical movements can improve the quality of patient care
by informing the development of new training protocols for surgeons, and the design and …

A real-time variable stiffness measuring method consisted of residual-based estimator and parametric observer

X Lin, C Peng, Y Yin - Procedia CIRP, 2019 - Elsevier
In the field of human-machine interaction, a dynamic stiffness estimator consisted of residual-
based estimator and parametric stiffness observer is proposed to estimate the nonlinear time …

Corticospinal excitability for flexor carpi radialis decreases with baroreceptor unloading during intentional co-contraction with opposing forearm muscles

VE Buharin, M Shinohara - Experimental Brain Research, 2019 - Springer
Concurrent activation of antagonistic muscles (co-contraction) is used for stiffening a joint,
whereas its neural control under hemodynamic stress (eg, posture change, high gravity, and …