Muscles Testing and Function

TL;DR: The results show that individual motor cortical neurons encode many parameters of movement, that object interaction is an important factor when extracting these signals, and that high-dimensional operation of prosthetic devices can be achieved with simple decoding algorithms.

TL;DR: Preseason hip strength testing of professional ice hockey players can identify players at risk of developing adductor muscle strains, and a player was 17 times more likely to sustain an adduction muscle strain if his adduction strength was less than 80% of his abduction strength.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared normalized trapezius muscle activity and intramuscular balance ratios between overhead athletes with impingement symptoms and non-injured athletes during isokinetic abduction and external rotation movements.

TL;DR: Evidence that proprioceptive deficits caused by partial deafferentiation result when copsuloligomentous structures are damaged is provided, and Reconstructive surgery appears to restore some of these proprioception characteristics.

TL;DR: Evidence that proprioceptive deficits caused by partial deafferentiation result when copsuloligomentous structures are damaged is provided, and Reconstructive surgery appears to restore some of these proprioception characteristics.

TL;DR: It is concluded that although muscle mass correlates with muscle strength in a healthy older population, use of simple age‐independent clinical measurements of body mass should not be used to predict muscle strength.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored whether a classical EMG-based patterns recognition approach could be employed to predict patients' intentions while attempting to generate goal-directed movements in the horizontal plane.

TL;DR: The findings of this immediate test-retest reliability study suggest that the clinical measurement of the thoracic kyphosis using gravity dependent inclinometers demonstrates excellent intra-rater reliability.