Pre-treatment EMG can be used to model post-treatment muscle coordination during walking in children with cerebral palsy.

ABSTRACT: When treating children with Cerebral Palsy (CP), computational simulations based on musculoskeletal models have a great potential in assisting the clinical decision-making process towards the most promising treatments. In particular, predictive simulations could be used to predict and compare the functional outcome of a series of candidate interventions. In order to be able to benefit from these predictive simulations however, it is important to know how much information about the post-treatment patient's motor control could be gathered from data available before the intervention. Within this paper, we quantified how much of the muscle activity measured after a treatment could be explained by subject-specific muscle synergies computed from EMG data collected before the intervention. We als

SUBMITTER: Pitto L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7015404 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature