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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Biomechanics

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  • Motor behavior with upper-extremity prostheses exhibits significant variability, complicating rehabilitation strategies.
  • Understanding neural control mechanisms driving this variability is crucial for post-limb loss adaptation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how grasp posture variability influences sensorimotor neural activation during motor tasks using prosthesis simulators.
  • To determine the impact of task complexity and prosthesis type on neural adaptation.

Main Methods:

  • Non-amputated participants performed simple and complex reach-to-grasp tasks with transradial or partial-hand prosthesis simulators.
  • Sensorimotor beta activation was measured and compared between participants using variable versus uniform grasp postures.

Main Results:

  • In simple tasks, both partial-hand variable and transradial users showed increased neural activation ipsilaterally.
  • Complex tasks revealed significant sensorimotor cortex activation increase only in partial-hand variable graspers from early to late reach phases.

Conclusions:

  • Grasp variability appears to be a critical factor in neural adaptation to prosthesis use.
  • The influence of grasp variability is mediated by prosthesis type and task complexity, offering insights for amputation rehabilitation.