Force-stabilizing synergies can be retained by coordinating sensory-blocked and sensory-intact digits

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The present study examined the effects of selective digital deafferentation on the multi-finger synergies as a function of total force requirement and the number of digits involved in isometric pressing. 12 healthy adults participated in maximal and sub-maximal isometric pressing tasks with or without digital anesthesia to selective digits from the right hand. Our results indicate that selective anesthesia paradigm induces changes in both anesthetized (local) and non-anesthetized (non-local) digits’ performance, including: (1) decreased maximal force abilities in both local and non-local digits; (2) reduced force share during multi-finger tasks from non-local but not local digits; (3) decreased force error-making; and (4) marginally increased motor synergies. These results reinforce the contribution of somatosensory feedback in the process of maximal voluntary contraction force, motor performance, and indicate that somatosensation may play a role in optimizing secondary goals during isometric force production rather than ensuring task performance.

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Zhang, W., Reschechtko, S., Hahn, B., Benson, C., & Youssef, E. (2019). Force-stabilizing synergies can be retained by coordinating sensory-blocked and sensory-intact digits. PLoS ONE, 14(12). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226596

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