Age-related modifications of muscle synergies during daily-living tasks: A scoping review.

Elderly Electromyography Gait Muscle coordination Sit-to-stand Stair ascent

Journal

Clinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon)
ISSN: 1879-1271
Titre abrégé: Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon)
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8611877

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Mar 2024
Historique:
received: 06 08 2023
revised: 09 02 2024
accepted: 13 02 2024
pubmed: 18 2 2024
medline: 18 2 2024
entrez: 17 2 2024
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Aging is associated with changes in neuromuscular control that can lead to difficulties in performing daily living tasks. Muscle synergy analysis allows the assessment of neuromuscular control strategies and functional deficits. However, the age-related changes of muscle synergies during functional tasks are scattered throughout the literature. This review aimed to synthesize the existing literature on muscle synergies in elderly people during daily-living tasks and examine how they differ from those exhibited by young adults. The Medline, CINAHL and Web of Science databases were searched. Studies were included if they focused on muscle synergies in elderly people during walking, sit-to-stand or stair ascent, and if muscle synergies were obtained by a matrix factorization algorithm. Seventeen studies were included after the screening process. The muscle synergies of 295 elderly people and 182 young adults were reported, including 5 to 16 muscles per leg, or leg and trunk. Results suggest that: 1) elderly people and young adults retain similar muscle synergies' number, 2) elderly people have higher muscles weighting during walking, and 3) an increased inter and intra-subject temporal activation variability during specific tasks (i.e., walking and stair ascent, respectively) was reported in elderly people compared to young adults. This review gives a comprehensive understanding of age-related changes in neuromuscular control during daily living tasks. Our findings suggested that although the number of synergies remains similar, metrics such as spatial and temporal structures of synergies are more suitable to identify neuromuscular control deficits between young adults and elderly people.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Aging is associated with changes in neuromuscular control that can lead to difficulties in performing daily living tasks. Muscle synergy analysis allows the assessment of neuromuscular control strategies and functional deficits. However, the age-related changes of muscle synergies during functional tasks are scattered throughout the literature. This review aimed to synthesize the existing literature on muscle synergies in elderly people during daily-living tasks and examine how they differ from those exhibited by young adults.
METHODS METHODS
The Medline, CINAHL and Web of Science databases were searched. Studies were included if they focused on muscle synergies in elderly people during walking, sit-to-stand or stair ascent, and if muscle synergies were obtained by a matrix factorization algorithm.
FINDINGS RESULTS
Seventeen studies were included after the screening process. The muscle synergies of 295 elderly people and 182 young adults were reported, including 5 to 16 muscles per leg, or leg and trunk. Results suggest that: 1) elderly people and young adults retain similar muscle synergies' number, 2) elderly people have higher muscles weighting during walking, and 3) an increased inter and intra-subject temporal activation variability during specific tasks (i.e., walking and stair ascent, respectively) was reported in elderly people compared to young adults.
INTERPRETATION CONCLUSIONS
This review gives a comprehensive understanding of age-related changes in neuromuscular control during daily living tasks. Our findings suggested that although the number of synergies remains similar, metrics such as spatial and temporal structures of synergies are more suitable to identify neuromuscular control deficits between young adults and elderly people.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2024.106207 PMID: 38367481
pubmed: 38367481
pii: S0268-0033(24)00039-1
doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2024.106207
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doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

106207

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no competing interest.

Auteurs

Cloé Dussault-Picard (C)

École de kinésiologie et des sciences de l'activité physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Laboratoire de Neurobiomécanique & Neuroréadaptation de la Locomotion (NNL), Centre de recherche du CHU Ste Justine, Montréal, QC, Canada.

Sara Havashinezhadian (S)

Département de Kinésiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada; Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Réadaptation et Intégration Sociale, Québec, QC, Canada.

Nicolas A Turpin (NA)

IRISSE (EA 4075), UFR SHE, Département des sciences du sport (STAPS), Université de la Réunion, France.

Florent Moissenet (F)

Laboratoire de kinésiologie, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève et Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland; Laboratoire de biomécanique, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève et Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland.

Katia Turcot (K)

Département de Kinésiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada; Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Réadaptation et Intégration Sociale, Québec, QC, Canada.

Yosra Cherni (Y)

École de kinésiologie et des sciences de l'activité physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Laboratoire de Neurobiomécanique & Neuroréadaptation de la Locomotion (NNL), Centre de recherche du CHU Ste Justine, Montréal, QC, Canada; Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur le Cerveau et l'apprentissage (CIRCA), Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada. Electronic address: yosra.cherni@umontreal.ca.

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