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A robotic neck brace to characterize head‐neck motion and muscle electromyography in subjects with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Source :
- Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, Vol 6, Iss 9, Pp 1671-1680 (2019), Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2019.
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Abstract
- Objective This paper presents the first study where a dynamic neck brace was used to characterize the head motion of ALS patients while concurrently recording the surface electromyography (EMG) of the neck muscles. Methods Eleven ALS patients and 10 age‐matched healthy controls consented and participated in an experiment. Each participant was asked to perform three single‐plane motions of the head‐neck that included flexion–extension in the sagittal plane, lateral bending in the coronal plane, and axial rotation in the transverse plane. Each motion was performed in a cycle and was repeated five times at self‐selected speeds. Results During single‐plane flexion–extension under gravity, compared to healthy peers, ALS patients showed a shorter duration to reach the maximum flexion and an earlier EMG onset in the neck extensors starting from the neutral. The brace measures in activation of the neck muscles in ALS patients were well correlated with clinically measured scores, such as the ALSFRS‐r and the FVC. The activation duration of sternocleidomastoid, used to rotate the head, correlated well with the ALSFRS‐r and FVC in ALS patients during axial rotation. Interpretation The ability to synchronously activate a pair of muscles to execute single‐plane motions in ALS patients seems to have been compromised due to the disease and potentially results in head drop. The neck brace measures can be adapted in the clinic to complement self‐reporting in ALS patients and used to assess the head drop and progress of the disease.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Electromyography
03 medical and health sciences
FEV1/FVC ratio
0302 clinical medicine
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Neck Muscles
medicine
Humans
Muscle Strength
Range of Motion, Articular
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
RC346-429
Research Articles
Aged
Braces
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
General Neuroscience
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Robotics
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Brace
Sagittal plane
Transverse plane
030104 developmental biology
medicine.anatomical_structure
Head Movements
Coronal plane
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system
business
Range of motion
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Research Article
RC321-571
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23289503
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....76621a0710294d494c3c7a0592ea03d2