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Record W2046701755 · doi:10.1152/jn.90679.2008

Neuromechanics of Muscle Synergies During Cycling

2008· article· en· W2046701755 on OpenAlex
James M. Wakeling

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Neurophysiology · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMuscle activation and electromyography studies
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsElectromyographyVarimax rotationCyclingMotor unit recruitmentPhysical medicine and rehabilitationAnatomyBiologyComputer scienceNeuroscienceMathematicsMedicineStatistics

Abstract

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Muscle synergies have been proposed as building blocks that could simplify the construction of motor behaviors. However, the muscles within synergistic groups may have different architectures, mechanical linkages to the skeleton, and biochemical properties, and these put competing demands on the most appropriate way to activate them for different mechanical tasks. This study identifies the extent to which synergistic patterns of muscle activity vary when the mechanical demands on a limb were altered, and additionally identifies how consistent the spectral profiles of the electromyographic (EMG) intensities were across the different movement tasks. The muscle activities were measured with surface EMG across 10 muscles in the leg during cycling at a range of loads and velocities. The EMGs were quantified by their intensities in time-frequency space using wavelet analysis; the instantaneous patterns of activity identified using principal component analysis, statistically compared and further visualized using the varimax rotation. Variability (35.7%) in the patterns of activity between the muscles were correlated with the torque and velocity of the pedal crank. Anatomic groups of muscles share a common mechanical action across a joint; uncoupling between such muscles was identified in 68.8% of the varimax patterns that encompassed all 10 muscles and 20.8-29.5% of the activity patterns when the anatomic groups were analyzed separately. The EMG spectra showed greatest heterogeneity for the gastrocnemii. These results show that the activity of muscles within anatomic groups is partially uncoupled in response to altered mechanical demands on the limb.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.855
Threshold uncertainty score0.321

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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.206
Teacher spread0.192 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it