Age-Related Modifications of Muscle Synergies and Their Temporal Activations for Overground Walking

Xiaoyu Guo, Borong He, Kelvin Y.S. Lau, Peter P.K. Chan, Richard Liu, Jodie J. Xie, Sophia C.W. Ha, Chao Ying Chen, Gladys L.Y. Cheing, Roy T.H. Cheung, Rosa H.M. Chan*, Vincent C.K. Cheung*

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Healthy ageing modifies neuromuscular control of human overground walking. Previous studies found that ageing changes gait biomechanics, but whether there is concurrent ageing-related modulation of neuromuscular control remains unclear. We analyzed gait kinematics and electromyographic signals (EMGs; 14 lower-limb and trunk muscles) collected at three speeds during overground walking in 11 healthy young adults (mean age of 23.4 years) and 11 healthy elderlies (67.2 years). Neuromuscular control was characterized by extracting muscle synergies from EMGs and the synergies of both groups were {k} -means-clustered. The synergies of the two groups were grossly similar, but we observed numerous cluster- and muscle-specific differences between the age groups. At the population level, some hip-motion-related synergy clusters were more frequently identified in elderlies while others, more frequent in young adults. Such differences in synergy prevalence between the age groups are consistent with the finding that elderlies had a larger hip flexion range. For the synergies shared between both groups, the elderlies had higher inter-subject variability of the temporal activations than young adults. To further explore what synergy characteristics may be related to this inter-subject variability, we found that the inter-subject variance of temporal activations correlated negatively with the sparseness of the synergies in elderlies but not young adults during slow walking. Overall, our results suggest that as humans age, not only are the muscle synergies for walking fine-tuned in structure, but their temporal activation patterns are also more heterogeneous across individuals, possibly reflecting individual differences in prior sensorimotor experience or ageing-related changes in limb neuro-musculoskeletal properties.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)2700-2709
頁數10
期刊IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
30
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出版狀態已出版 - 2022

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