A muscle synergy-based method to estimate muscle activation patterns of children with cerebral palsy using data collected from typically developing children.

ABSTRACT: Preparing children with cerebral palsy prior to gait analysis may be a challenging and time-intensive task, especially when large number of sensors are involved. Collecting minimum number of electromyograms (EMG) and yet providing adequate information for clinical assessment might improve clinical workflow. The main goal of this study was to develop a method to estimate activation patterns of lower limb muscles from EMG measured from a small set of muscles in children with cerebral palsy. We developed and implemented a muscle synergy extrapolation method able to estimate the full set of lower limbs muscle activation patterns from only three experimentally measured EMG. Specifically, we extracted a set of hybrid muscle synergies from muscle activation patterns of children with cerebral pals

SUBMITTER: Rabbi MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8897462 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature