Lumbar time-varying muscle synergies in trunk flexion and bending movements at different velocities

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Rouchi Mahdi Bagheri,Davoudi Mehrdad,Meftahi NargesORCID,Parnianpour MohamadORCID,Khalaf Kinda,Rashedi EhsanORCID

Abstract

AbstractPurposeAlthough the extent of which the central nervous system uses muscle synergies as a movement control strategy remains an open area of research, it is widely agreed that synergies facilitate the robustness of the neuromuscular system, allowing for effective postural control and flexible movement. This work aimed to investigate the muscle activation patterns of the trunk and time-varying muscle synergies using a novel 18-muscle 3-DOF, 3-D musculoskeletal model of the lumbar spine developed by the authors.Methods24 different biaxial trunk movements were simulated via the optimization of kinetic and kinematic measures towards obtaining the corresponding muscle activation patterns at 3 different velocities. These patterns were subsequently used to extract the principal (phasic and tonic) spatiotemporal synergies associated with the observed muscle activation patterns in the range of simulated movements.ResultsFour dominant synergies were able to explain a considerable percent (about 75%) of the variance of the simulated muscle activities. The extracted synergies were spatially tuned in the direction of the main simulated movements (flexion/extension and right/left lateral bending). The temporal patterns demonstrated gradual monotonic shifts in tonic synergies and biphasic modulatory components in phasic synergies with spatially tuned time-delays. The increase in velocity resulted in an elevated amplitude coefficient and accelerated activation of phasic synergies.ConclusionOur results suggest the plausibility of a time-varying synergies strategy in the dynamic control of trunk movement. Further work is needed to explore leveraging these concepts in various applications, such as rehabilitation and musculoskeletal biomechanics, towards providing more insight into the mechanisms underlying trunk stability and flexibility.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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