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On the assessment of coordination between upper extremities: towards a common language between rehabilitation engineers, clinicians and neuroscientists
Well-developed coordination of the upper extremities is critical for function in everyday life. Interlimb coordination is an intuitive, yet subjective concept that refers to spatio-temporal relationships between kinematic, kinetic and physiological variables of two or more limbs executing a motor ta...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5017057/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27608923 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12984-016-0186-x |
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author | Shirota, Camila Jansa, Jelka Diaz, Javier Balasubramanian, Sivakumar Mazzoleni, Stefano Borghese, N. Alberto Melendez-Calderon, Alejandro |
author_facet | Shirota, Camila Jansa, Jelka Diaz, Javier Balasubramanian, Sivakumar Mazzoleni, Stefano Borghese, N. Alberto Melendez-Calderon, Alejandro |
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description | Well-developed coordination of the upper extremities is critical for function in everyday life. Interlimb coordination is an intuitive, yet subjective concept that refers to spatio-temporal relationships between kinematic, kinetic and physiological variables of two or more limbs executing a motor task with a common goal. While both the clinical and neuroscience communities agree on the relevance of assessing and quantifying interlimb coordination, rehabilitation engineers struggle to translate the knowledge and needs of clinicians and neuroscientists into technological devices for the impaired. The use of ambiguous definitions in the scientific literature, and lack of common agreement on what should be measured, present large barriers to advancements in this area. Here, we present the different definitions and approaches to assess and quantify interlimb coordination in the clinic, in motor control studies, and by state-of-the-art robotic devices. We then propose a taxonomy of interlimb activities and give recommendations for future neuroscience-based robotic- and sensor-based assessments of upper limb function that are applicable to the everyday clinical practice. We believe this is the first step towards our long-term goal of unifying different fields and help the generation of more consistent and effective tools for neurorehabilitation. |
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spelling | pubmed-50170572016-09-10 On the assessment of coordination between upper extremities: towards a common language between rehabilitation engineers, clinicians and neuroscientists Shirota, Camila Jansa, Jelka Diaz, Javier Balasubramanian, Sivakumar Mazzoleni, Stefano Borghese, N. Alberto Melendez-Calderon, Alejandro J Neuroeng Rehabil Review Well-developed coordination of the upper extremities is critical for function in everyday life. Interlimb coordination is an intuitive, yet subjective concept that refers to spatio-temporal relationships between kinematic, kinetic and physiological variables of two or more limbs executing a motor task with a common goal. While both the clinical and neuroscience communities agree on the relevance of assessing and quantifying interlimb coordination, rehabilitation engineers struggle to translate the knowledge and needs of clinicians and neuroscientists into technological devices for the impaired. The use of ambiguous definitions in the scientific literature, and lack of common agreement on what should be measured, present large barriers to advancements in this area. Here, we present the different definitions and approaches to assess and quantify interlimb coordination in the clinic, in motor control studies, and by state-of-the-art robotic devices. We then propose a taxonomy of interlimb activities and give recommendations for future neuroscience-based robotic- and sensor-based assessments of upper limb function that are applicable to the everyday clinical practice. We believe this is the first step towards our long-term goal of unifying different fields and help the generation of more consistent and effective tools for neurorehabilitation. BioMed Central 2016-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5017057/ /pubmed/27608923 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12984-016-0186-x Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Review Shirota, Camila Jansa, Jelka Diaz, Javier Balasubramanian, Sivakumar Mazzoleni, Stefano Borghese, N. Alberto Melendez-Calderon, Alejandro On the assessment of coordination between upper extremities: towards a common language between rehabilitation engineers, clinicians and neuroscientists |
title | On the assessment of coordination between upper extremities: towards a common language between rehabilitation engineers, clinicians and neuroscientists |
title_full | On the assessment of coordination between upper extremities: towards a common language between rehabilitation engineers, clinicians and neuroscientists |
title_fullStr | On the assessment of coordination between upper extremities: towards a common language between rehabilitation engineers, clinicians and neuroscientists |
title_full_unstemmed | On the assessment of coordination between upper extremities: towards a common language between rehabilitation engineers, clinicians and neuroscientists |
title_short | On the assessment of coordination between upper extremities: towards a common language between rehabilitation engineers, clinicians and neuroscientists |
title_sort | on the assessment of coordination between upper extremities: towards a common language between rehabilitation engineers, clinicians and neuroscientists |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5017057/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27608923 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12984-016-0186-x |
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