ReviewApplied bionics and biomechanics2018
Feasibility of Muscle Synergy Outcomes in Clinics, Robotics, and Sports: A Systematic Review.
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Neurophysiological, balance and motion evidence in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: A systematic review.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Wearable Inertial Sensors to Assess Gait during the 6-Minute Walk Test: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Pooled it
- Myoelectric interface training enables targeted reduction in abnormal muscle co-activation.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Trial
- Baseline EMG alters muscle synergy activations while preserving spatial structure in healthy and post-stroke subjects.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Electromyography After Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review of Neuromuscular Alterations and Functional Movement Patterns.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Muscle synergies and functional network organization underlying Tai Chi movements: a pilot cross-Sectional study towards a personalized Neuromechanical Baseline.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Article
- A Kinematic and EMG Dataset for Upper Limb and Hand Movement Analysis in Post-Stroke and Healthy Subjects.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Muscle Synergy During Cutting Movements in Athletes with a History of Groin Pain.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Alterations in muscular control when performing unfamiliar elbow flexion and extension movements.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Article
- Technological Advances for Gait and Balance in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: A Systematic Review.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Application of Muscle Synergies for Gait Rehabilitation After Stroke: Implications for Future Research.Neurology international · 2024Review
- Altered muscle synergy structure in patients with poststroke stiff knee gait.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Transferring Sensor-Based Assessments to Clinical Practice: The Case of Muscle Synergies.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Alternative muscle synergy patterns of upper limb amputees.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2024Article
- Adaptive Shooting Disciplines: A Scoping Review of the Literature with Bibliometric Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effects of Bilateral Extracephalic Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Lower Limb Kinetics in Countermovement Jumps.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Muscle synergy analysis of eight inter-limb coordination modes during human hands-knees crawling movement.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Difference in muscle synergies of the butterfly technique with and without swimmer's shoulder.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Cognitive impairment in people with previous COVID-19 infection: A scoping review.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2022Article
- Alterations in motor modules and their contribution to limitations in force control in the upper extremity after stroke.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
In the last years, several studies have been focused on understanding how the central nervous system controls muscles to perform a specific motor task. Although it still remains an open question, muscle synergies have come to be an appealing theory to explain the modular organization of the central nervous system. Even though the neural encoding of muscle synergies remains controversial, a large number of papers demonstrated that muscle synergies are robust across different tested conditions, which are within a day, between days, within a single subject, and between subjects that have similar demographic characteristics. Thus, muscle synergy theory has been largely used in several research fields, such as clinics, robotics, and sports. The present systematical review aims at providing an overview on the applications of muscle synergy theory in clinics, robotics, and sports; in particular, the review is focused on the papers that provide tangible information for (i) diagnosis or pathology assessment in clinics, (ii) robot-control design in robotics, and (iii) athletes' performance assessment or training guidelines in sports.
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