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## Introduction Muscle synergies have been proposed as a strategy employed by the central nervous system to control movements. Muscle synergy analysis is a well-established framework to examine the pathophysiological basis of neurological diseases and has been applied for analysis and assessment in clinical applications in the last decades, even if it has not yet been widely used in clinical diagnosis, rehabilitative treatment and interventions. Even if inconsistencies in the outputs among studies and lack of a normative pipeline including signal processing and synergy analysis limit the progress, common findings and results are identifiable as a basis for future research. Therefore, a literature review that summarizes methods and main findings of previous works on upper limb muscle synergies in clinical environment is needed to i) summarize the main findings so far, ii) highlight the barriers limiting their use in clinical applications, and iii) suggest future research directions needed for facilitating translation of experimental research to clinical scenarios. ## Methods Articles in which muscle synergies were used to analyze and assess upper limb function in neurological impair

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Author

Kunkun Zhao; Zhisheng Zhang; Haiying Wen; Bin Liu; Jianqing Li; Andrea d’Avella; Alessandro Scano

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Physical Sciences)