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| Reference | Pathology | Aim | Subjects | Tasks | Muscles (segments) | Outcomes |
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| [26] Tang et al. 2017 | Cerebral palsy | Assess the upper limb motor dysfunction | 14 patients
10 healthy children | Reaching tasks | 10 (trunk and upper limb) | (i) Reduced synergies in patients
(ii) Greater synergy variability in patients |
| [36] Cheung et al. 2012 | Stroke | Assess the upper limb motor dysfunction | 31 patients | Reaching tasks | 17 (upper limbs) | (i) Reduced synergies in affected arm
(ii) Muscle synergies as marker for physiological evaluation |
| [37] Lee et al. 2013 | Stroke | Assess the ability to modulate muscle coordination | 14 patients
4 healthy subjects | Isometric tasks | 9 (upper limb) | (i) Correlation with clinical scores
(ii) Muscle synergy vectors as index for pathology severity |
| [38] Roh et al. 2013 | Stroke | Assess the upper limb motor dysfunction | 10 patients
6 healthy subjects | Isometric tasks | 8 (upper limb) | (i) Different muscle synergy organization for shoulder muscle |
| [39] Tropea et al. 2013 | Stroke | Assess changes in motor control after neurorehabilitation | 6 patients
10 healthy subjects | Reaching task | 10 (upper limb) | (i) Different muscle synergy organization for shoulder muscle
(ii) No difference on muscle synergy organization after rehabilitation |
| [40] Garcia-Cossio et al. 2014 | Stroke | Characterize motor control | 33 patients | Movements of arm and hand | 8 (upper limb) | (i) Correlation between muscle synergies and hand movement functionality |
| [41] Roh et al. 2015 | Stroke | Assess the upper limb motor dysfunction | 16 patients
10 healthy subjects | Isometric tasks | 8 (upper limb) | (i) Four synergies in both groups
(ii) Different muscle synergy organization for shoulder muscle |
| [42] Hesam-Shariati et al. 2017 | Stroke | Use synergies as severity index | 24 patients | Wii-Baseball game | 6 (upper limb) | (i) Reduced synergies in patients with high pathology severity |
| [43] Godlove et al. 2016 | Stroke | Assess changes in motor control | 1 patient | Reaching tasks | 8 (upper limb) | (i) Abnormal muscle synergy organization and cortical activation in the stroke patient |
| [44] Li et al. 2017 | Stroke | Define metrics for assessing motor functions | 10 patients
9 healthy subjects | Reaching tasks | 7 (upper limb) | (i) Different muscle synergy organization in patients |
| [45] Zariffa et al. 2012 | Spinal cord injury | Examine change in motor control | 8 patients
10 healthy subjects | Gripping tasks | 8 (hand) | (i) Different synergies in patients
(ii) No correlation with motor ability |
| [46] Lunardini et al. 2017 | Dystonia | Examine change in motor control | 9 patients
9 healthy children | Writing tasks | 8 (upper limb) | (i) Similar muscle synergy organization between groups |
| [47] Gizzi et al. 2015 | Pain | Examine change in neck motor control | 8 healthy subjects with pain induced | Reaching tasks | 12 (trunk and neck) | (i) Different synergy organization with and without induced pain |
| [48] Muceli et al. 2014 | Pain | Examine change in motor control | 8 healthy subjects with pain induced | Reaching tasks | 12 (upper limb) | (i) Higher variability of muscle synergy organization with pain |
| [49] Heales et al. 2016 | Lateral epicondylalgia | Examine change in coordination of forearm | 20 patients
14 healthy patients | Gripping tasks | 6 (upper limb) | (i) Two synergies in both groups
(ii) Different muscle synergy organization between groups |
| [50] Manickaraj et al. 2017 | Lateral epicondylalgia | Examine change in motor coordination | 11 patients
11 healthy subjects | Gripping tasks | 6 (hand) | (i) Reduced synergies in patients
(ii) Use of muscle synergies as index to monitor pain |
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