Influence of bimanual exercise on muscle activation in post-stroke patients

ROBOMECH Journal

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Matti Itkonen¹  Álvaro Costa¹  Hiroshi Yamasaki¹  Shotaro Okajima¹  Fady Alnajjar³  Takatsune Kumada²  Shingo Shimoda¹ 

[1] Intelligent Behavior Control Unit, RIKEN CBS-TOYOTA Collaboration Center;Laboratory of Psychoinformatics, Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Kyoto University;Intelligent Robot Interaction Laboratory, College of IT, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates

关键词: Electromyography;    Bimanual training;    Post-stroke rehabilitation;    Hemiparesis;    Motor behavior;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40648-019-0142-1

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Brain damage due to stroke often leaves survivors with lateral functional motor deficits. Bimanual rehabilitation of the paretic arm is an active field of research aimed at restoring normal functionality by making use of the complex neural bindings that exist between the arms. In search of an effective rehabilitation method, we introduced a group of post-stroke rehabilitation patients to a set of bimanual motion tasks with inter-manual coupling and phasing. The surface EMG profiles of the patients were compared in order to understand the effect of the motion conditions. The paretic arms of the patients were more strongly affected by the task conditions compared with the non-paretic arms. These results suggest that in-phase motion may activate neural circuits that trigger recovery. Coupling also had an effect on behavior, but the response of patients was divided between those whom coupling helped or hindered.

【 授权许可】

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