Directional control of reaching is preserved following mild/moderate stroke and stochastically constrained following severe stroke

Experimental Brain Research
David J ReinkensmeyerDerek G Kamper

Abstract

Recent evidence suggests that brain injury can impair the ability to independently activate shoulder and elbow muscles. We hypothesized that if muscle activation patterns are constrained, then brain-injured subjects should not be able to accurately grade initial hand movement direction during reaching toward a broad range of target directions. To test this hypothesis, we measured hand trajectories during reaching in three-space by 16 hemiparetic stroke subjects to an array of 75 targets distributed throughout the workspace. Contrary to our hypothesis, we found that the ability to grade movement direction was largely preserved following mild and moderate stroke. However, the most severely impaired subjects exhibited a degradation of directional control consistent with a loss of independent muscle control. Initial and final hand movement directions for these subjects were grouped roughly in two opposing directions, in a plane parallel with the coronal plane of the body, rather than distributed across the normal range. Selection between the two movement directions appeared partially random, in that subjects initiated over 50% of movements in the direction generally opposite the intended target, for targets to one side of the body....Continue Reading

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