期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
卷 128, 期 5, 页码 1244-1257出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00259.2022
关键词
gain scaling; reflex coordination; shoulder; stretch reflex
资金
- National Institutes of Health [R01NS053813, F31AR074288, T32GM008152, T32HD007418]
The unique anatomy of the shoulder allows for both mobility and stability. This study investigates the coordination of stretch reflexes in shoulder muscles and finds that these reflexes are sensitive to both the background activity of individual muscles and the aggregate activity of all muscles crossing the shoulder. The findings suggest that stretch reflexes play a role in maintaining shoulder stability during encounters with environmental perturbations.
The unique anatomy of the shoulder allows for expansive mobility but also sometimes precarious stability. It has long been suggested that stretch-sensitive reflexes contribute to maintaining joint stability through feedback control, but little is known about how stretch-sensitive reflexes are coordinated between the muscles of the shoulder. The purpose of this study was to investigate the coordination of stretch reflexes in shoulder muscles elicited by rotations of the glenohumeral joint. We hypothesized that stretch reflexes are sensitive to not only a given muscle's background activity but also the aggregate activity of all muscles crossing the shoulder based on the different groupings of muscles required to actuate the shoulder in three rotation& degrees of freedom. We examined the relationship between a muscle's background activity and its reflex response in eight shoulder muscles by applying rotational perturbations while participants produced voluntary isometric torques. We found that this relationship, defined as gain scaling, differed at both short and long latencies based on the direction of voluntary torque generated by the participant. Therefore, gain scaling differed based on the aggregate of muscles that were active, not just the background activity in the muscle within which the reflex was measured. Across all muscles, the consideration of torque-dependent gain scaling improved model fits (Delta R2()) by 0.17 +/- 0.12. Modulation was most evident when volitional torques and perturbation directions were aligned along the same measurement axis, suggesting a functional role in resisting perturbations among synergists while maintaining task performance. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Careful coordination of muscles crossing the shoulder is needed to maintain the delicate balance between the joint's mobility and stability. We provide experimental evidence that stretch reflexes within shoulder muscles are modulated based on the aggregate activity of muscles crossing the joint, not just the activity of the muscle in which the reflex is elicited. Our results reflect coordination through neural coupling that may help maintain shoulder stability during encounters with environmental perturbations.
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