The purpose of this study is to investigate whether regional modulation of the ankle plantarflexors during standing was related to the recruitment of motor units associated with force direction. Fourteen participants performed a multi-directional leaning task in standing. Participants stood on a force platform and maintained their center of pressure in five different target directions. Motor unit firings were extracted by decomposition of high-density surface electromyograms recorded from the ankle plantarflexor muscles. The motor unit barycentre, defined as the weighted mean of the maximal average rectified values across columns and rows, was used to evaluate the medio-lateral and proximo-distal changes in the surface representation of single motor units across different leaning target directions. Using a motor unit tracking analysis, groups of motor units were identified as being common or unique across the target directions. The leaning directions had an effect on the spatial representations of motor units in the medial gastrocnemius and soleus (p < 0.05), but not in the lateral gastrocnemius (p > 0.05). Motor unit action potentials were represented in the medial and proximal aspects of the muscles during forward vs. lateral leans. Further analysis determined that the common motor units were found in similar spatial locations across the target directions, whereas newly recruited unique motor units were found in different spatial locations according to target direction (p < 0.05). The central nervous system may possess the ability to activate different groups of motor units according to task demands to meet the force-direction requirements of the leaning task.
Maintenance of standing posture during multi-directional leaning demands the recruitment of task-specific motor units in the ankle plantarflexors / Cohen, J. W.; Vieira, T.; Ivanova, T. D.; Cerone, G. L.; Garland, S. J.. - In: EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH. - ISSN 0014-4819. - STAMPA. - 239:8(2021), pp. 2569-2581. [10.1007/s00221-021-06154-0]
Maintenance of standing posture during multi-directional leaning demands the recruitment of task-specific motor units in the ankle plantarflexors
Vieira T.;Cerone G. L.;
2021
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The purpose of this study is to investigate whether regional modulation of the ankle plantarflexors during standing was related to the recruitment of motor units associated with force direction. Fourteen participants performed a multi-directional leaning task in standing. Participants stood on a force platform and maintained their center of pressure in five different target directions. Motor unit firings were extracted by decomposition of high-density surface electromyograms recorded from the ankle plantarflexor muscles. The motor unit barycentre, defined as the weighted mean of the maximal average rectified values across columns and rows, was used to evaluate the medio-lateral and proximo-distal changes in the surface representation of single motor units across different leaning target directions. Using a motor unit tracking analysis, groups of motor units were identified as being common or unique across the target directions. The leaning directions had an effect on the spatial representations of motor units in the medial gastrocnemius and soleus (p < 0.05), but not in the lateral gastrocnemius (p > 0.05). Motor unit action potentials were represented in the medial and proximal aspects of the muscles during forward vs. lateral leans. Further analysis determined that the common motor units were found in similar spatial locations across the target directions, whereas newly recruited unique motor units were found in different spatial locations according to target direction (p < 0.05). The central nervous system may possess the ability to activate different groups of motor units according to task demands to meet the force-direction requirements of the leaning task.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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