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- Title
A low-dimensional representation of arm movements and hand grip forces in post-stroke individuals.
- Authors
Kanzler, Christoph M.; Averta, Giuseppe; Schwarz, Anne; Held, Jeremia P. O.; Gassert, Roger; Bicchi, Antonio; Santello, Marco; Lambercy, Olivier; Bianchi, Matteo
- Abstract
Characterizing post-stroke impairments in the sensorimotor control of arm and hand is essential to better understand altered mechanisms of movement generation. Herein, we used a decomposition algorithm to characterize impairments in end-effector velocity and hand grip force data collected from an instrumented functional task in 83 healthy control and 27 chronic post-stroke individuals with mild-to-moderate impairments. According to kinematic and kinetic raw data, post-stroke individuals showed reduced functional performance during all task phases. After applying the decomposition algorithm, we observed that the behavioural data from healthy controls relies on a low-dimensional representation and demonstrated that this representation is mostly preserved post-stroke. Further, it emerged that reduced functional performance post-stroke correlates to an abnormal variance distribution of the behavioural representation, except when reducing hand grip forces. This suggests that the behavioural repertoire in these post-stroke individuals is mostly preserved, thereby pointing towards therapeutic strategies that optimize movement quality and the reduction of grip forces to improve performance of daily life activities post-stroke.
- Subjects
FUNCTIONAL status; ACTIVITIES of daily living; ANKLE; EVERYDAY life
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41598-022-11806-4