Shared muscle synergies between running and physical performance tests
Hiroki Saito, Ayu Yamano, Nanae Suzuki, Kazuya Matsushita, Hikaru Yokoyama, Atsushi Sasaki, Tatsuya Takahashi, Sakiko Ito, Kimitaka Nakazawa · 2025
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Description
Hiroki Saito and eight co-authors check whether rehab test tasks use the same muscle patterns as running. After injury, clinicians use performance tests to judge when an athlete can run again. If the tests demand different muscle teamwork, they may clear athletes too soon or too late. Their 2025 study recorded muscle activity in ten healthy men during running and nine test tasks, including walking and one-leg hops. Software then extracted the muscle synergies, the fixed groupings the brain uses to fire muscles together.
Comparing the groupings across tasks shows which tests truly mimic running. Shared patterns would back a test as a stand-in; missing patterns would warn against it. The authors aim to ground return-to-running calls in nerve and muscle facts, not habit.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hiroki Saito, Ayu Yamano, Nanae Suzuki, Kazuya Matsushita, Hikaru Yokoyama, Atsushi Sasaki, Tatsuya Takahashi, Sakiko Ito, Kimitaka Nakazawa |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |