Neuromuscular Mechanisms of Motor Adaptation to Repeated Treadmill-Slip Perturbations During Stance in Healthy Young Adults

Autor: Shuaijie Wang, Rudri Purohit, Tamaya Van Criekinge, Tanvi Bhatt
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol 32, Pp 4207-4218 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1534-4320
1558-0210
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2024.3485580
Popis: Treadmill-based repeated perturbation training (PBT) induces motor adaptation in reactive balance responses, thus lowering the risk of slip-induced falls. However, little evidence exists regarding intervention-induced changes in neuromuscular control underlying motor adaptation. Examining neuromuscular changes could be an important step in identifying key elements of adaptation and evaluating treadmill training protocols for fall prevention. Moreover, identifying the muscle synergies contributing to motor adaptation in young adults could lay the groundwork for comparison with high fall-risk populations. Thus, we aimed to investigate neuromuscular changes in reactive balance responses during stance slip-PBT. Lower limb electromyography (EMG) signals (4/leg) were recorded during ten repeated forward stance (slip-like) perturbations in twenty-six young adults. Muscle synergies were compared between early-training (slips 1-2) and late-training (slips 9-10) stages. Results showed that 5 different modes of synergies (named on dominant muscles: WTA, W $_{\text {S}\_{\text {VL}\text {AT}}}$ , W $_{\text {R}\_{\text {GA}\text {S}}}$ , W $_{\text {R}\_{\text {VL}\text {AT}}}$ , and W $_{\text {S}\_{\text {GA}\text {S}}}\text {)}$ were recruited in both stages. 3 out of 5 synergies (WTA, W $_{\text {R}\_{\text {VL}\text {AT}}}$ , and W $_{\text {S}\_{\text {GA}\text {S}}}\text {)}$ showed a high similarity (r >0.97) in structure and activation between stages, whereas W $_{\text {R}\_{\text {GA}\text {S}}}$ and W $_{\text {S}\_{\text {VL}\text {AT}}}$ showed a lower similarity (r $_{\text {R}\_{\text {VL}\text {AT}}}$ and the activation onset in W $_{\text {R}\_{\text {GA}\text {S}}}$ showed a reduction from early- to late-training stage (p
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