Balance Perturbation Leads a Stretching Reflexion on Tibialis Anterior Muscle

Renata Gonçalves Pinheiro Corrêa, Matheus Lucas Aguiar, Caluê Papcke, Eduardo Borba Neves, Agnelo Denis Vieira, Eduardo Mendonça Scheeren

2015

Abstract

Human posture control is a sophisticated process involving the relationship among multiple joints, muscle groups and environment. The aim of this study is to show how the balance perturbation (in posterior-anterior direction) leads to a stretching reflexion on the tibialis anterior (TA) muscle. A case study that involved a male participant with 23 years old. To disturb the participant's balance, it has been employed a specially plataform designed with dimensions 1.5 m by 1.5 m with movement of 5 mm of amplitude on a total time of 3 ms along the axis coinciding with participant's anterior-posterior axis. Soleus (SO) and TA electromyography signal (EMG) has been recorded. Perturbation in the equilibrium was delivered in the posterior-anterior direction. The first event observed was the pre-activation of the TA muscle that leads a reduction in the SO muscle activation, due the stretch reflex at TA.

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Gonçalves Pinheiro Corrêa R., Lucas Aguiar M., Papcke C., Borba Neves E., Denis Vieira A. and Mendonça Scheeren E. (2015). Balance Perturbation Leads a Stretching Reflexion on Tibialis Anterior Muscle . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-069-7, pages 324-328. DOI: 10.5220/0005283103240328


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@conference{biosignals15,
author={Renata Gonçalves Pinheiro Corrêa and Matheus Lucas Aguiar and Caluê Papcke and Eduardo Borba Neves and Agnelo Denis Vieira and Eduardo Mendonça Scheeren},
title={Balance Perturbation Leads a Stretching Reflexion on Tibialis Anterior Muscle},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={324-328},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005283103240328},
isbn={978-989-758-069-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2015)
TI - Balance Perturbation Leads a Stretching Reflexion on Tibialis Anterior Muscle
SN - 978-989-758-069-7
AU - Gonçalves Pinheiro Corrêa R.
AU - Lucas Aguiar M.
AU - Papcke C.
AU - Borba Neves E.
AU - Denis Vieira A.
AU - Mendonça Scheeren E.
PY - 2015
SP - 324
EP - 328
DO - 10.5220/0005283103240328