The effect of task symmetry on bimanual reach-to-grasp movements after cervical spinal cord injury.

ABSTRACT: Injury to the cervical spinal cord results in deficits in bimanual control, reducing functional independence and quality of life. Despite this, little research has investigated the control strategies which underpin bimanual arm/hand movements following cervical spinal cord injury (cSCI). Using kinematics and surface electromyography this study explored how task symmetry affects bimanual control, in patients with an acute cSCI (< 6 m post injury), as they performed naturalistic bimanual reach-to-grasp actions (to objects at 50% and 70% of their maximal reach distance), and how this differs compared to uninjured age-matched controls. Twelve adults with a cSCI (mean age 69.25 years), with lesions at C3-C8, categorized by the American Spinal Injury Impairment Scale (AIS) at C or D and 12 uninj

SUBMITTER: Britten L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6223837 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature