Axial synergies during human upper trunk bending

Experimental Brain Research
A AlexandrovJ Massion

Abstract

Upper trunk bending movements were accompanied by opposite movements of the lower body segments. These axial kinematic synergies maintained equilibrium during the movement performance by stabilizing the center of gravity (CG), which shifted on average across all the subjects by 1 +/- 4 cm in the anteroposterior direction and thus always remained within the support area. The aim of the present investigation was to provide an insight into the central control responsible for the performance of these synergies. The kinematic analysis was performed by the method of principal components (PC) analysis applied to the covariation between ankle, knee and hip joint angles and compared with CG shifts during upper trunk bending. Subjects were asked to perform backward or forward upper trunk bending in response to a tone. They were instructed to move as fast as possible or slowly (2 s), with high or low movement amplitudes. PC analysis showed a strong correlation between hip, knee and ankle joint changes. The first principal component (PC1) representing a multijoint movement with fixed ratios between joint angular changes, accounted, on average, for 99.7% +/- 0.2% of the total angular variance in the forward trunk movements and for 98.4% +/-...Continue Reading

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