Muscle coactivation during gait after percutaneous repair of Achilles tendon: a case report

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dc.coverageDOI: 10.1117/12.2669813
dc.creatorValencia, Oscar
dc.creatorSilva, Diego
dc.creatorRossi, Rafael
dc.creatorPellegrini, Manuel
dc.creatorCarcuro, Giovanni
dc.creatorAvilés, Carolina
dc.creatorGuzmán-Venegas, Rodrigo
dc.creatorWeinstein, Alejandro
dc.date2023
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-18T19:49:14Z
dc.date.available2025-11-18T19:49:14Z
dc.description<p>The muscle coactivation phenomenon (mCoA) has been used to describe motor tasks such as human gait, reflecting the levels of joint stability of the lower limbs in healthy people versus patients with musculoskeletal problems. Nonetheless, scarce literature has described the mCoA evolution in patients with Achilles tendon reconstruction surgery. The aim of this study was to describe the mCoA during human gait in one patient undergoing Achilles tendon reconstruction surgery for acute tendon rupture with a new surgical technique (PARS-Dresden) in two times-frame (12 and 24 weeks). Human gait was recorded on a treadmill at 2.5 km/h. This task was recorded with a 3D motion system synchronized with electromyographic (sEMG) equipment. The sEMG signals were acquired from three portions of the triceps surae (soleus [So], medial [MG], and lateral [LG] gastrocnemius) and tibialis anterior [TA], in both shanks. The mCoA levels (represented as a percentage) were calculated considering twenty gait cycles in muscular pairs TA-MG, TA-LG, and TA-So, in both operated (OL) and non-operated (NOL) limbs. The analysis was estimated with a processing pipeline developed in Python language, considering the Falcone and Winter equation. The results showed a slight increase in the mCoA during gait in some muscular pairs at 24 weeks. The coactivation levels were greater in the TA-MG and TA-So pairs of the OL vs the NOL. Additionally, a higher asymmetry was observed between OL vs NOL at the 12 weeks.</p>eng
dc.identifierhttps://investigadores.uandes.cl/en/publications/09e6c654-b561-4cf2-b8d2-81cc4004dc60
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uandes.cl/handle/uandes/55978
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSPIE
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.sourceBrieva, Jorge, Guevara, Pamela, Lepore, Natasha, Linguraru, Marius G., Rittner, Leticia, Castro, Eduardo Romero (Ed.), 18th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis, SPIE.
dc.subjectAchilles tendon rupture
dc.subjectHuman gait
dc.subjectmuscle coactivation
dc.subjectSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
dc.titleMuscle coactivation during gait after percutaneous repair of Achilles tendon: a case reporteng
dc.typeConference contributioneng
dc.typeContribución a la conferenciaspa
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