ReviewEuropean journal of applied physiology2021
How to improve the muscle synergy analysis methodology?
Review in European journal of applied physiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05014009 (The Influence of Neuromuscular Training on Whole-body Movement Strategies and Knee Mechanics During Change-of-direction Tasks in Sports Science Students), which is not on this map. Cited by 47 papers.
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The Influence of Neuromuscular Training on Whole-body Movement Strategies and Knee Mechanics During Change-of-direction Tasks in Sports Science Students
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47 citing papers in PubMed.
- Quantifying Lower-Limb Muscle Coordination During Cycling Using Electromyography-Informed Muscle Synergies.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- Functional muscle networks as biomarkers of post-stroke motor impairment and therapeutic responsiveness.eLife · 2026Article
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- Review of electroencephalography and electromyography research in robotics: opportunities and challenges.Visual computing for industry, biomedicine, and art · 2026Review
- Task complexity amplifies spatial asymmetry of muscle synergy plasticity in chronic stroke survivors.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Muscle coordination strategies during Functional Reach across multiple directions in healthy individuals.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Modular organization of intermuscular and interjoint interaction during ball catching.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Task specific effects of fatigue on lower limb muscle synergies during single and double leg drop jumps in female athletes.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Developmental changes in upper limb muscle synergies during throwing: A comparison between preschoolers and schoolers.iScience · 2025Article
- Muscle Synergies of the Lower Extremities During Gait Initiation in Individuals With and Without Chronic Ankle Instability.Journal of foot and ankle research · 2025Article
- Enhancing Jump Performance Through Blood Flow Restriction Squat Exercise: A Muscle Synergy Analysis Using Wavelet Packet Transformation.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2025Article
- Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Enhances Lower Limb Muscle Synergies During Jumping in Martial Artists Post-Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Randomized Crossover Trial.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Microscale velocity-dependent unbinding generates a macroscale performance-efficiency tradeoff in actomyosin systems.Communications biology · 2025Article
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- Motor modules are largely unaffected by pathological walking biomechanics: a simulation study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Identification of lower limb muscle fatigue in basketball players based on sEMG signals.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Next-Generation Neurotechnologies Inspired by Motor Primitive Model for Restoring Human Natural Movement.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Review
- Effects of sliding techniques on lower limb biomechanics and muscle synergy during curling delivery: a focus on joint kinetics and muscle coordination.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Facial expression recognition through muscle synergies and estimation of facial keypoint displacements through a skin-musculoskeletal model using facial sEMG signals.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Dynamical network-based evaluation for neuromuscular dysfunction in stroke-induced hemiplegia during standing.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2024Article
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Abstract
Muscle synergy analysis is increasingly used in domains such as neurosciences, robotics, rehabilitation or sport sciences to analyze and better understand motor coordination. The analysis uses dimensionality reduction techniques to identify regularities in spatial, temporal or spatio-temporal patterns of multiple muscle activation. Recent studies have pointed out variability in outcomes associated with the different methodological options available and there was a need to clarify several aspects of the analysis methodology. While synergy analysis appears to be a robust technique, it remain a statistical tool and is, therefore, sensitive to the amount and quality of input data (EMGs). In particular, attention should be paid to EMG amplitude normalization, baseline noise removal or EMG filtering which may diminish or increase the signal-to-noise ratio of the EMG signal and could have major effects on synergy estimates. In order to robustly identify synergies, experiments should be performed so that the groups of muscles that would potentially form a synergy are activated with a sufficient level of activity, ensuring that the synergy subspace is fully explored. The concurrent use of various synergy formulations-spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal synergies- should be encouraged. The number of synergies represents either the dimension of the spatial structure or the number of independent temporal patterns, and we observed that these two aspects are often mixed in the analysis. To select a number, criteria based on noise estimates, reliability of analysis results, or functional outcomes of the synergies provide interesting substitutes to criteria solely based on variance thresholds.
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