Does symmetrical upper limb task involve symmetrical postural adjustments?

Autor: S. Le Bozec, Eric Yiou, M. Mezaour
Přispěvatelé: Complexité, Innovation, Activités Motrices et Sportives (CIAMS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Université d'Orléans (UO)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
Předmět:
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Movement
Biophysics
Biomedical Engineering
Bioengineering
Electromyography
Lower limb
Functional Laterality
050105 experimental psychology
Task (project management)
Upper Extremity
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
medicine
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
[PHYS.MECA.BIOM]Physics [physics]/Mechanics [physics]/Biomechanics [physics.med-ph]
Muscle
Skeletal

Postural Balance
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
[SCCO.NEUR]Cognitive science/Neuroscience
Rehabilitation
05 social sciences
Healthy subjects
[SPI.MECA.BIOM]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Mechanics [physics.med-ph]/Biomechanics [physics.med-ph]
030229 sport sciences
General Medicine
Computer Science Applications
Human-Computer Interaction
body regions
medicine.anatomical_structure
Physical therapy
Upper limb
Symmetry (geometry)
business
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Gait and Posture
Gait and Posture, Elsevier, 2009, 30 (2), pp.239-44. ⟨10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.05.007⟩
ISSN: 0966-6362
Popis: International audience; This study tested the hypothesis that, in young healthy subjects, a symmetrical upper limb task involves asymmetrical postural adjustments with respect to lower limb dominance. Subjects (N=10) purposely performed a series of bilateral forward-reach tasks (BFR) while standing unilaterally on the dominant leg, on the non-dominant leg (unilateral conditions) or on both legs (bipedal condition). For each leg, the integrated electromyographical (iEMG) activity per 20-ms periods ranging from 300 ms before BFR onset (t0) to 1000 ms after t0 was compared between the unipedal and bipedal stance conditions. This time-window included "anticipatory", "on-line" and "corrective" postural adjustments, i.e. those postural adjustments occurring before (anticipatory postural adjustments, APAs), during (on-line postural adjustments, OPAs) and after (corrective postural adjustments, CPAs) the BFR. During the APAs, results showed that, for each leg, changing the stance condition from bipedal to unipedal did not elicit any iEMG changes in any of the postural muscles investigated. In contrast, during the OPAs, an early increase in the excitation level of the semitendinosus for the dominant leg and a late increase in the excitation level of the soleus for the non-dominant leg were detected. During the CPAs, an increase in the excitation level of the soleus, tibialis anterior and semitendinosus was detected in the non-dominant leg whereas, in the dominant leg, no change in the excitation level for any postural muscle recorded was observed. These results support the concept of side dominance in the postural component of a symmetrical upper limb task.
Databáze: OpenAIRE