Abstract
The aim of this study was to quantify and compare the inter-limb muscle coordination during crawling between typically developing infants and infants with developmental delay. Typically developing (TD, \text{N}=20) infants and infants with at risk of developmental delay (ARDD, \textbf{N}=33) or confirmed developmental delayCDD, N=14) participated in this study. Surface electromyography of eight muscles from arms and legs and the corresponding joint kinematic data were collected while they were crawling on hands and knees at their self-selected velocity. The number of used inter-limb muscle synergies during crawling was identified by nonnegative matrix factorization algorithm. Our results showed that there was no significant difference in the number of used muscle synergies between ARDD and TD infants during crawling. However, a reduced number of synergies were identified in infants with CDD, as compared to that in TD and ARDD infants, indicating constrained neuromuscular control strategy during crawling in developmental delayed infants. The absence of inter-limb muscle synergies may be one of the mechanisms underlying the impairments of crawling in developmental delayed infants, who are at high risk of cerebral palsy. This result also suggests that the metrics of muscle synergy during infant crawling, such as the number of synergy, may be feasible as a biomarker for early diagnosis of infants with cerebral palsy.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 4697-4700 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781538636466 |
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| State | Published - Oct 26 2018 |
| Event | 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018 - Honolulu, United States Duration: Jul 18 2018 → Jul 21 2018 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS |
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| Volume | 2018-July |
| ISSN (Print) | 1557-170X |
Other
| Other | 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Honolulu |
| Period | 7/18/18 → 7/21/18 |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Health Informatics
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Inter-Limb Muscle Synergy of Hands-and-Knees Crawling in Typical Developing Infants and Infants with Developmental Delay. / Xiong, Qi L.; Wu, Xiao Y.; Yao, Jun; Sukal Moulton, Theresa; Xiao, Nong; Chen, Lin; Zheng, Xiao L.; Liu, Yuan; Hou, Wen S.
40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. p. 4697-4700 8513123 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS; Vol. 2018-July).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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T1 - Inter-Limb Muscle Synergy of Hands-and-Knees Crawling in Typical Developing Infants and Infants with Developmental Delay
AU - Xiong, Qi L.
AU - Wu, Xiao Y.
AU - Yao, Jun
AU - Sukal Moulton, Theresa
AU - Xiao, Nong
AU - Chen, Lin
AU - Zheng, Xiao L.
AU - Liu, Yuan
AU - Hou, Wen S.
PY - 2018/10/26
Y1 - 2018/10/26
N2 - The aim of this study was to quantify and compare the inter-limb muscle coordination during crawling between typically developing infants and infants with developmental delay. Typically developing (TD, \text{N}=20) infants and infants with at risk of developmental delay (ARDD, \textbf{N}=33) or confirmed developmental delayCDD, N=14) participated in this study. Surface electromyography of eight muscles from arms and legs and the corresponding joint kinematic data were collected while they were crawling on hands and knees at their self-selected velocity. The number of used inter-limb muscle synergies during crawling was identified by nonnegative matrix factorization algorithm. Our results showed that there was no significant difference in the number of used muscle synergies between ARDD and TD infants during crawling. However, a reduced number of synergies were identified in infants with CDD, as compared to that in TD and ARDD infants, indicating constrained neuromuscular control strategy during crawling in developmental delayed infants. The absence of inter-limb muscle synergies may be one of the mechanisms underlying the impairments of crawling in developmental delayed infants, who are at high risk of cerebral palsy. This result also suggests that the metrics of muscle synergy during infant crawling, such as the number of synergy, may be feasible as a biomarker for early diagnosis of infants with cerebral palsy.
AB - The aim of this study was to quantify and compare the inter-limb muscle coordination during crawling between typically developing infants and infants with developmental delay. Typically developing (TD, \text{N}=20) infants and infants with at risk of developmental delay (ARDD, \textbf{N}=33) or confirmed developmental delayCDD, N=14) participated in this study. Surface electromyography of eight muscles from arms and legs and the corresponding joint kinematic data were collected while they were crawling on hands and knees at their self-selected velocity. The number of used inter-limb muscle synergies during crawling was identified by nonnegative matrix factorization algorithm. Our results showed that there was no significant difference in the number of used muscle synergies between ARDD and TD infants during crawling. However, a reduced number of synergies were identified in infants with CDD, as compared to that in TD and ARDD infants, indicating constrained neuromuscular control strategy during crawling in developmental delayed infants. The absence of inter-limb muscle synergies may be one of the mechanisms underlying the impairments of crawling in developmental delayed infants, who are at high risk of cerebral palsy. This result also suggests that the metrics of muscle synergy during infant crawling, such as the number of synergy, may be feasible as a biomarker for early diagnosis of infants with cerebral palsy.
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