ArticleAnnals of biomedical engineering2017
Fundamental Principles of Tremor Propagation in the Upper Limb.
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- Peripherical Electrical Stimulation for Parkinsonian Tremor: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Body placement of inertial measurement units differentially affects physical activity assessment accuracy in drug-naïve Parkinson's disease.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Designs of Upper Limb Tremor Suppression Orthoses: Efficacy and Wearer's Comfort.Journal of medical devices · 2025Review
- Feedback parameters for a closed-loop multiple-input multiple-output model of the upper limb.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Learning to suppress tremors: a deep reinforcement learning-enabled soft exoskeleton for Parkinson's patients.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Article
- Potential of Individual Upper-Limb Muscles to Contribute to Postural Tremor: Simulations From Neural Drive to Joint Rotation.Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- A Case Series of Isolated Smiling Tremor: What Is the Phenomenology?Movement disorders clinical practice · 2024Article
- Viscous damping of tremor using a wearable robot with an optimized mechanical metamaterial.Wearable technologies · 2024Article
- Towards Ultrasound Imaging-based Closed-loop Peripheral Nerve Stimulation for Tremor Suppression.Current opinion in biomedical engineering · 2023Article
- Essential Tremor accentuates the pattern of tremor-band coherence between upper-limb muscles.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
- Distribution of tremorogenic activity among the major superficial muscles of the upper limb in persons with Essential tremor.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022Article
- Distribution of tremor among the major degrees of freedom of the upper limb in subjects with Essential Tremor.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2020Article
- Physiological tremor increases when skeletal muscle is shortened: implications for fusimotor control.The Journal of physiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Although tremor is the most common movement disorder, there exist few effective tremor-suppressing devices, in part because the characteristics of tremor throughout the upper limb are unknown. To clarify, optimally suppressing tremor requires a knowledge of the mechanical origin, propagation, and distribution of tremor throughout the upper limb. Here we present the first systematic investigation of how tremor propagates between the shoulder, elbow, forearm, and wrist. We simulated tremor propagation using a linear, time-invariant, lumped-parameter model relating joint torques and the resulting joint displacements. The model focused on the seven main degrees of freedom from the shoulder to the wrist and included coupled joint inertia, damping, and stiffness. We deliberately implemented a simple model to focus first on the most basic effects. Simulating tremorogenic joint torque as a sinusoidal input, we used the model to establish fundamental principles describing how input parameters (torque location and frequency) and joint impedance (inertia, damping, and stiffness) affect tremor propagation. We expect that the methods and principles presented here will serve as the groundwork for future refining studies to understand the origin, propagation, and distribution of tremor throughout the upper limb in order to enable the future development of optimal tremor-suppressing devices.
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