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Upper limb motor dysfunction is associated with fragmented kinetics after brain injury

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Background Characterization of motor deficits after brain injury is important for rehabilitation personalization. While studies reported abnormalities in the kinematics of paretic and non-paretic elbow extension for patients with brain injuries, kinematic analysis is not sufficient to explore how patients deal with musculoskeletal redundancy and the energetic aspect of movement execution. Conversely, interarticular coordination and movement kinetics can reflect patients' motor strategies. This study investigates motor strategies of paretic and non-paretic upper limb after brain injury to highlight motor deficits or compensation strategies. Methods 26 brain-injured hemiplegic patients and 24 healthy controls performed active elbow extensions in the horizontal plane, with both upper limbs for patients and, with the dominant upper limb for controls. Elbow and shoulder kinematics, interarticular coordination, net joint kinetics were quantified. Findings Results show alterations in kinematics, and a strong correlation between elbow and shoulder angles, as well as time to reach elbow and shoulder peak angular velocity in both upper limbs of patients. Net joint kinetics were lower for paretic limb and highlighted a fragmented motor strategy with increased number of transitions between concentric and eccentric phases. Interpretation In complement to kinematic results, our kinetic results confirmed patients' difficulties to manage both spatially and temporally the joint degrees of freedom redundancy but revealed a fragmented compensatory motor strategy allowing patients upper limb extension despite quality alteration and decrease in energy efficiency. Motor rehabilitation should improve the management of this fragmentation strategy to improve the performance and the efficiency of active movement after brain injury.
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hal-04500709 , version 1 (12-03-2024)

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Emilie Mathieu, D. Gasq, Sylvain Crémoux, Célia Delcamp, Camille Cormier, et al.. Upper limb motor dysfunction is associated with fragmented kinetics after brain injury. Clinical Biomechanics, 2024, 114, pp.106221. ⟨10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2024.106221⟩. ⟨hal-04500709⟩
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