Evidence of short-term adaptation to microgravity of neuromuscular synergy during a whole body movement.
Human, like any other animal systems, moves in the terrestrial gravity field and must learn gravity-related motor strategies during his ontogenetic development. Considering continuous gravity action upon body segments, movement involves particular muscle activation patterns depending on body orientation to gravity. Gravitational-altered environments provided by parabolic flight or orbital space mission offer a great opportunity to investigate how gravity is taken into account in posture and movement planning. Indeed, in a context where the mechanical constraints are modified, movement execution involves that new muscular activity have to be produced. Almost, only few studies in microgravity environment are included electromyographic analysis and this parameter is generally used only to confirm modification of the muscular activation patterns. This study is focused to analyse the adaptation capacity of the brain to a modified gravitational environment. In this aim, EMG activity have been recorded during a whole body movement execution in both normo- and microgravity environment during parabolic flight. This procedure allowed us to analyse the EMG patterns recorded during the very first moments of weightlessness. In this study are reported the results of this analyse.
INSERM/ERIT-M 0207 "Motricity and Plasticity", Campus Universitaire, Faculte des Sciences du Sport, Dijon, France. Jerome.patron@u-bourgogne.fr
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