Interlimb coordination in Parkinson's disease
作者:
Jo‐Anne C. Lazarus,
George E. Stelmach,
期刊:
Movement Disorders
(WILEY Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 7,
issue 2
页码: 159-170
ISSN:0885-3185
年代: 1992
DOI:10.1002/mds.870070211
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
关键词: Bimanual simultaneous movements;Motor control;Isometric contraction;Isotonic movement
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThis study examined the degree to which Parkinson's disease (PD) patients could “spatially link” the upper limbs to facilitate the performance of bimanual simultaneous movements. Six right‐handed PD patients, and seven normal age‐ and sex‐matched controls performed three different tasks: (a) an isotonic elbow flexion as rapidly as possible through an angle of 30°; (b) an isometric contraction of the flexor muscles at the elbow joint to 40% and 60% of maximal volitional force (MVF) for a period of 5 s; (c) an isometric contraction for 2.5 s with one limb, then simultaneously performing an isotonic flexion with the contralateral limb while maintaining the isometric contraction for 2.5 s more. As expected, PD patients were significantly slower in performing the isotonic movement and produced lower peak velocities than the controls. More importantly, the two groups were differentially affected during the bimanual condition. In normals, movement time decreased and peak velocity increased in the bimanual condition. In contrast, PD patients showed increased movement times and sometimes decreased peak velocities in the bimanual condition. The results suggest that normal subjects utilize bilateral outflow to symmetrical muscle groups to synchronize the two limbs in the bimanual task, whereas PD patients dissociate the
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