Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-04-28DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2025.2497376
Yoon-Mo Yang, Ju-Hyung Park
{"title":"Effects of Upper Limb Robot Therapy with Action Observation Training on Subacute Stroke Patients: A Randomised Controlled Trial.","authors":"Yoon-Mo Yang, Ju-Hyung Park","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2025.2497376","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2025.2497376","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Action observation training (AOT) is recognised as an effective method for enhancing motor function by engaging mirror neurons. This study investigated the combined effects of AOT and upper limb robot therapy on upper extremity function, movement quality, activities of daily living (ADL), muscle activity, and coordination in stroke patients. Twenty-four subacute stroke patients were randomly assigned to either an intervention group (AOT + robot therapy, <i>n</i> = 12) or a control group (robot therapy only, <i>n</i> = 12). Primary outcomes were assessed using FMA-UE and ARAT, while secondary outcomes included the Point-to-Point test, K-MBI, %RVC, and CCR. Both groups demonstrated significant improvements in upper extremity function, movement quality, ADL, and muscle activity. However, the intervention group showed significantly greater enhancements in upper extremity function, ADL, and muscle activity than the control group. Additionally, CCR values were negative for all movements in the intervention group, whereas in the control group, only shoulder flexion exhibited a negative value. These findings suggest that integrating AOT with upper limb robot therapy enhances muscle activity, coordination, and functional recovery in subacute stroke patients, highlighting its potential as a valuable rehabilitation approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":"57 4","pages":"358-376"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144627626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-24DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2024.2416242
Hamid Salehi, Parisa Kalantari
{"title":"The Effects of Constraints on the Variability of Throwing Patterns in Young Children.","authors":"Hamid Salehi, Parisa Kalantari","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2416242","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2416242","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research examined how changes in task constraints impacted the throwing patterns of children. The study involved 24 children, with an equal number of males and females, aged 5 and 6. The primary task constraints were the orientation of the target (horizontal or vertical hoops) and the size of the ball (diameters of 6 cm or 12 cm). We observed throwing patterns and analyzed kinematic changes in the preferred throws' components. Initially, some children transitioned from using two hands to using one hand, and from underhand to overarm throws, particularly when using the larger balls. However, the preferred pattern for most children was one-hand overarm throwing. The kinematic analysis revealed that the participants adapted their throwing technique based on the size of the ball and the orientation of the hoop. The most significant adjustments occurred in the forearm component in response to changes in the target orientation. Notably, when aiming for a vertical hoop, distinct modifications were observed, including elevating the humerus and pulling the hand backward. These findings support the dynamical systems theory, which explains how movement patterns vary during motor development. The study also discussed the potential benefits of using constraints for skill acquisition in physical education settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"87-95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142512116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-03DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2024.2416231
Xiaojian Shi, Charlotte Ganderton, Roger Adams, Jia Han, Doa El-Ansary, Oren Tirosh
{"title":"Smartphone Proprioception for Ankle Navigation (SPAN): Reliability and Effect of Position Exposure Time.","authors":"Xiaojian Shi, Charlotte Ganderton, Roger Adams, Jia Han, Doa El-Ansary, Oren Tirosh","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2416231","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2416231","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated ankle discriminative acuity and performance and measurement consistency for tests undertaken with different joint position exposure times (PETs). Twenty-four participants were tested using a novel Smartphone Proprioception for Ankle Navigation (SPAN) under four PETs, i.e., 0.25s, 0.5s, 0.75s and 1s, delivered in a random sequence, and then re-tested within one week. The results indicated a PET main effect (<i>F</i> = 10.12, <i>p</i> = 0.004, partial ƞ2 = 0.14), and limb preference main effect (<i>F</i> = 5.39, <i>p</i> = 0.03, partial ƞ2 = 0.19), without significant interactions (<i>p</i> > 0.05). Ankle proprioception improved with prolonged PET, with the non-dominant side outperforming the dominant side. A PET of 0.25s showed good to excellent reliability, with intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) of 0.897 (95%CI: 0.761, 0.955) and 0.885 (95%CI: 0.736, 0.951), with standard errors of measurements (SEM) between 0.030 and 0.035, and minimum detectable change at 90% (MDC<sub>90</sub>) between 0.070 and 0.082, compared to poor to moderate reliability at the other three longer PETs (ICCs =0.352-0.736). The findings suggested the prolongation of PET can improve ankle proprioceptive performance but can amplify the inter-occasion variability, likely due to increased cognitive analysis with longer stimulus sampling. SPAN may thus be a cost-effective and accessible apparatus for clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"54-60"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142569810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-14DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2024.2411995
Victor Hugo Alves Okazaki, Luis Augusto Teixeira
{"title":"Increasing Movement Amplitude in Speeded Hitting Enhances Contact Velocity Without Affecting Directional Accuracy or Movement Variability.","authors":"Victor Hugo Alves Okazaki, Luis Augusto Teixeira","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2411995","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2411995","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Performance of sport-related ballistic motor skills, like ball hitting in golf and baseball, requires wide movements to produce highly fast and spatially accurate movements. In this study, we assessed the effect of movement amplitude on directional accuracy in a ballistic hitting task. Participants performed the task of moving a manual handle over a flat surface to hit with high speed a moveable disc, aiming to propel it towards a frontal target. Five movement amplitudes were compared, ranging from 11.5 cm to 27.5 cm in steps of 4 cm. Kinematic analysis evaluated motions of the handle, disc, and arm joints. Results showed that greater movement amplitudes led to longer acceleration phases, with delayed peak velocities at the handle, shoulder and elbow, leading to higher contact and peak linear velocities of the handle, and higher angular velocities at the shoulder and elbow. Manipulation of movement amplitude led to no evidence for effects on either disc directional accuracy or variability. Results also revealed no evidence for differences in variability of contact velocity, peak velocity and time of peak velocity across movement amplitudes in the shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Our results indicated that greater movement amplitudes in hitting a spatial target lead to increased contact velocity while not affecting directional accuracy or movement variability.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"43-53"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142479311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-12-03DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2024.2435829
Lasse Hansen, Jana Rogoschin, Igor Komnik, Wolfgang Potthast
{"title":"Muscle Synergies in Patients with Medial Knee Osteoarthritis During Level-, Ramp- and Stair Locomotion.","authors":"Lasse Hansen, Jana Rogoschin, Igor Komnik, Wolfgang Potthast","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2435829","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2435829","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a prevalent and severe condition with versatile effects on human locomotion, including alterations in neuromuscular control. Muscle synergies are understood as functional low-dimensional building blocks within the neuromuscular organization. To examine alterations in muscle synergy patterns during locomotion tasks in the presence of KOA, 40 participants, including 20 with medial KOA (KL-Score ≥ 2), performed level walking, as well as ramp and stair ascent and descent trials at self-selected speeds. Sixteen-Channel bilateral surface electromyography (sEMG) and marker-based motion capture data were collected. Non-negative matrix factorization (NNMF) was applied to the sEMG data for muscle synergy extraction. During level walking and descending conditions, structural changes in muscle synergy composition were observed in the KOA affected limb when compared to the unaffected side and control group. Alterations included fewer, merged synergies with prolonged activation coefficients and a higher percentage of unclassifiable synergies. No major alterations were observed during ascending conditions. No significant differences in gait speed and stride length were observed. These results indicate that muscle synergy composition can be altered in the presence of KOA regardless of age and gait speed, but not during all forms of locomotion.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"142-152"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142774324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing Virtual Reality and Balance Beam Training vs. Virtual Reality Alone for Balance Improvement.","authors":"Kanokporn Pooranawatthanakul, Jirapa Cannong, Thanakrit Thanasombut, Nicharee Hanprerakriengkrai, Maria Justine, Akkradate Siriphorn","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2025.2506756","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2025.2506756","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>This study investigated whether combining virtual reality (vr) with balance beam training enhances balance performance in young adults more effectively than vr alone, addressing the limited research on their combined effects. thirty-nine participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: </strong>VR with balance beam training, VR alone, or a control group. Participants in the VR groups completed a 5-min rope walking VR game in four sessions per day, 3 days per week, for 4 weeks. Balance was assessed using the Neurocom Balance Master before and after the intervention. Both the combined VR and balance beam group and the VR alone group showed significant improvements compared to the control group, including reduced tandem walk end sway, increased movement velocity, improved maximum excursion in the limit of stability, and decreased sway velocity during single-leg stance with eyes opened. However, no significant differences were found between the combined group and the VR alone group. These findings suggest that both VR combined with balance beam training and VR alone can significantly improve balance in young adults. This indicates that either approach could be effectively used to enhance balance in this population.</p><p><strong>Clinical trial registration number: </strong>The study was registered at www.thaiclinicaltrials.org (No. TCTR20201217005).</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"415-430"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144112628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2025.2455179
Marcin Furtak, Eli Brenner
{"title":"Guiding the Hand to an Invisible Target.","authors":"Marcin Furtak, Eli Brenner","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2025.2455179","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2025.2455179","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Numerous devices are being developed to assist visually impaired and blind individuals in performing everyday tasks such as reaching out to grasp objects. Considering that the size, weight, and cost of assistive devices significantly impact their acceptance, it would be useful to know how effective various types of guiding information can be. As an initial exploration of this issue, we conducted four studies in which participants with normal vision were visually guided toward targets. They were guided by information about the direction to the target, and either about the distance to the target or about the time required to reach the target. We compared participants' performance when provided with different amounts of each of these kinds of information. We found that restricting information about the distance from the target or the time it would take to reach the target to only a few possible values does not affect performance substantially. Restricting information about the direction to the target to only a few possible values appears to be more detrimental, but the disadvantage of having few possible directions can be mitigated by combining values in multiple directions. These findings can help optimize haptic presentations in assistive technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"215-223"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143025469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2025.2463989
Mikaela L Frechette, Jacob J Sosnoff, Manuel Enrique Hernandez, Laura A Rice
{"title":"The Attentional Demands of Wheelchair Operation.","authors":"Mikaela L Frechette, Jacob J Sosnoff, Manuel Enrique Hernandez, Laura A Rice","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2025.2463989","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2025.2463989","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To determine how motor control patterns in wheelchair propulsion mediate attentional demands. Fourteen participants completed two single- and dual-task trials of Serial-7 Subtraction and four, 30-second motor tasks: Static Sitting, Short Leans, Maximal Leans, and Stationary Propulsion. Differences in cognitive and motor function were determined through paired samples <i>t</i>-tests and percent changes (dual-task costs [DTCs]) were calculated. Within-subjects, repeated-measures ANOVAs determined differences in DTCs across motor tasks. Cognitive function was maintained from the single- to dual-task trials across tasks (DTC ≤ 13%; <i>p</i> = 0.12-0.74). Motor function was uniquely maintained during Maximal Leans (DTC ≤ 0.5%; <i>p</i> = 0.12-0.93), which yielded significantly lower dual-task cognitive function than the others (<i>p</i> < 0.01). Seated balance may be the primary contributor to the attentional demands of wheelchair propulsion.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"247-259"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144055253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-03-11DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2025.2474545
Samuel R Zeff, Douglas N Martini, Joseph Hamill, Richard van Emmerik
{"title":"Head Control and Upper-Body Coordination during Gait in Collegiate Contact and Noncontact Athletes.","authors":"Samuel R Zeff, Douglas N Martini, Joseph Hamill, Richard van Emmerik","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2025.2474545","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2025.2474545","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Persistent contact sport participation exposes athletes to repetitive head impacts, eliciting lingering motor performance alterations that could disrupt visual perception. We sought to compare head and trunk displacement, segmental coordination, and dynamic visual acuity between contact (ice hockey) and noncontact (baseball) athletes. Thirteen ice hockey and 11 baseball athletes walked at preferred and fast speeds during both a baseline and an imposed dynamic visual acuity (DVA) task. With increased visual task constraints and walking speeds, greater vertical head (preferred walking with visual task: 4.29 ± 0.48 vs 3.69 ± 0.71 cm, <i>p</i> = 0.030; fast baseline walking: 5.91 ± 0.59 vs 5.00 ± 0.97 cm, <i>p</i> = 0.019; fast walking with visual task: 5.72 ± 0.62 vs 4.86 ± 0.79 cm, <i>p</i> = 0.005) and trunk CoM displacement (fast baseline walking: 5.84 ± 0.61vs 5.00 ± 0.95 cm, <i>p</i> = 0.026; fast walking with visual task: 5.65 ± 0.63 vs 4.89 ± 0.78 cm, <i>p</i> = 0.014) were observed in contact athletes. In the transverse head-trunk coordination, contact athletes showed a decreased contribution of the head (9.85 ± 5.57 vs 19.36 ± 9.84%, <i>p</i> = 0.007) and increased trunk involvement (47.31 ± 21.43 vs 33.64 ± 10.79%, <i>p</i> = 0.030) compared to noncontact athletes, but this occurred only during fast walking with the DVA task. No DVA differences were observed (preferred speed: <i>p</i> = 0.650; fast speed: <i>p</i> = 0.820). While visual task performance was unaffected by contact sport status, the current results demonstrate changes in upper-body movement and how the head and trunk are coordinated in ice hockey athletes. Whether the observed upper-body movement and coordination changes due to repetitive head impact exposure result in decrements in visual perception and awareness in more challenging sporting environments remains unclear.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"287-298"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143607058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-07DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2024.2416238
Mika Ben David Bauch, Melanie C Baniña, Dario G Liebermann, Jason Friedman
{"title":"Does Body Postural Configuration Affect Upper Limb Performance During Point-to-Point Hand Movements?","authors":"Mika Ben David Bauch, Melanie C Baniña, Dario G Liebermann, Jason Friedman","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2416238","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2416238","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adopting a postural configuration may be regarded as preparation for the performance of an upcoming movement. However, it is unclear how different postural configurations affect motor performance. The aim of the current study was to examine how body posture - sitting versus standing - influences fast and accurate planar point-to-point hand movements. Twenty-three healthy adults performed a \"Go/No-go\" paradigm while doing repetitive point-to-point movements. Arousal levels, which may change due to the change in posture, were independently manipulated by using a sham threat of electrical stimulation. Upper limb kinematics, center of pressure displacement, and galvanic skin responses were recorded in four test conditions: sitting and standing with and without arousal manipulation. Descriptive performance measures were computed and analyzed using multiple analyses of variance. A difference in arousal level was observed in the two conditions with the arousal manipulation, but no difference in arousal level was found between sitting and standing. Center of pressure displacement onset was found to be earlier in the two standing conditions compared to those in sitting. No difference was found in upper limb performance between the two postures, nor due to the arousal manipulation. We concluded that under the tested conditions, body posture does not appear to affect upper limb performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":"57 1","pages":"77-86"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142980772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}