Recommendations for Target Muscle Activation Protocol During Trunk Rehabilitation Robot-Based Seated Perturbation Training
Rehabilitation interventions involving forced perturbations of seated balance can improve a patient’s balancing ability with increased muscle activations. Investigating training parameters that affect the specific muscle activation is essential to providing patient-tailored training. Howe...
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| description | Rehabilitation interventions involving forced perturbations of seated balance can improve a patient’s balancing ability with increased muscle activations. Investigating training parameters that affect the specific muscle activation is essential to providing patient-tailored training. However, there is limited information on the combined effects of different seated perturbation training parameters to provide target activation of lower limb muscles although various parameters can affect activating lower limb muscles. Accordingly, by using the trunk rehabilitation robot that can provide quantified perturbation, we investigated the effects of variations in perturbation speed (slow (SS) and fast (FS) speed), direction (mediolateral (ML) & anteroposterior (AP)), and leg support condition (seat-connected (SC) and ground-connected (GC) footrest) on the lower limb muscle activity as well as postural stability and trunk movement of 18 healthy young participants. The experimental results show that variation in training parameters affects balance, trunk movement, and muscle activity outcomes. From the experimental results, FS & GC with AP-directional perturbation can be the effective training protocol for Gastrocnemius (0.16 %PA, percentage of Peak Amplitude). In addition, considering balance instability results, FS & SC with AP-directional perturbation can be adopted as the effective training protocol to target the Vastus Lateralis (0.15 %PA), Semitendinosus (0.12 %PA), and Tibialis Anterior (0.16 %PA). Thus, modulation of footrest condition, perturbation speed and direction may be feasible for tuning perturbation exercises to achieve desired rehabilitation outcomes. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d93bf2c293964d0abd450df8f189edcb2025-08-20T01:50:29ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113781507816010.1109/ACCESS.2025.355992010963680Recommendations for Target Muscle Activation Protocol During Trunk Rehabilitation Robot-Based Seated Perturbation TrainingAmre Eizad0Hosu Lee1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8702-5993Junyeong Lee2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7725-7339Won-Kyung Song3Jungwon Yoon4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1350-5334Mine Safety Technology Research Centre, Resources Safety and Health Queensland (RSHQ SIMTARS), Brisbane, AustraliaDepartment of Control and Robot Engineering, School of Aerospace Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of KoreaDepartment of AI Convergence, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Rehabilitative and Assistive Technology, National Rehabilitation Center, Seoul, Republic of KoreaDepartment of AI Convergence, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of KoreaRehabilitation interventions involving forced perturbations of seated balance can improve a patient’s balancing ability with increased muscle activations. Investigating training parameters that affect the specific muscle activation is essential to providing patient-tailored training. However, there is limited information on the combined effects of different seated perturbation training parameters to provide target activation of lower limb muscles although various parameters can affect activating lower limb muscles. Accordingly, by using the trunk rehabilitation robot that can provide quantified perturbation, we investigated the effects of variations in perturbation speed (slow (SS) and fast (FS) speed), direction (mediolateral (ML) & anteroposterior (AP)), and leg support condition (seat-connected (SC) and ground-connected (GC) footrest) on the lower limb muscle activity as well as postural stability and trunk movement of 18 healthy young participants. The experimental results show that variation in training parameters affects balance, trunk movement, and muscle activity outcomes. From the experimental results, FS & GC with AP-directional perturbation can be the effective training protocol for Gastrocnemius (0.16 %PA, percentage of Peak Amplitude). In addition, considering balance instability results, FS & SC with AP-directional perturbation can be adopted as the effective training protocol to target the Vastus Lateralis (0.15 %PA), Semitendinosus (0.12 %PA), and Tibialis Anterior (0.16 %PA). Thus, modulation of footrest condition, perturbation speed and direction may be feasible for tuning perturbation exercises to achieve desired rehabilitation outcomes.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10963680/Seated balancebalance rehabilitationcenter of pressurerehabilitation robotbalance perturbation |
| spellingShingle | Amre Eizad Hosu Lee Junyeong Lee Won-Kyung Song Jungwon Yoon Recommendations for Target Muscle Activation Protocol During Trunk Rehabilitation Robot-Based Seated Perturbation Training IEEE Access Seated balance balance rehabilitation center of pressure rehabilitation robot balance perturbation |
| title | Recommendations for Target Muscle Activation Protocol During Trunk Rehabilitation Robot-Based Seated Perturbation Training |
| title_full | Recommendations for Target Muscle Activation Protocol During Trunk Rehabilitation Robot-Based Seated Perturbation Training |
| title_fullStr | Recommendations for Target Muscle Activation Protocol During Trunk Rehabilitation Robot-Based Seated Perturbation Training |
| title_full_unstemmed | Recommendations for Target Muscle Activation Protocol During Trunk Rehabilitation Robot-Based Seated Perturbation Training |
| title_short | Recommendations for Target Muscle Activation Protocol During Trunk Rehabilitation Robot-Based Seated Perturbation Training |
| title_sort | recommendations for target muscle activation protocol during trunk rehabilitation robot based seated perturbation training |
| topic | Seated balance balance rehabilitation center of pressure rehabilitation robot balance perturbation |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10963680/ |
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