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Andringa, Aukje (author), Meskers, Carel (author), van de Port, Ingrid (author), Zandvliet, Sarah (author), Scholte, Larissa (author), de Groot, J.H. (author), Kwakkel, Gert (author), van Wegen, Erwin (author)
Patients with poor upper limb motor recovery after stroke are likely to develop increased resistance to passive wrist extension, i.e., wrist hyper-resistance. Quantification of the underlying neural and non-neural elastic components is of clinical interest. This cross-sectional study compared two methods: a commercially available device ...
journal article 2021
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Pasma, J.H. (author), Engelhart, D. (author), Maier, A.B. (author), Aarts, R.G.K.M. (author), Van Gerven, J.M.A. (author), Arendzen, J.H. (author), Schouten, A.C. (author), Meskers, C.G.M. (author), Van der Kooij, H. (author)
Objectives System identification techniques have the potential to assess the contribution of the underlying systems involved in standing balance by applying well-known disturbances. We investigated the reliability of standing balance parameters obtained with multivariate closed loop system identification techniques. Methods In twelve healthy...
journal article 2016
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Meskers, C.G.M. (author), De Groot, J. (author), De Vlugt, E. (author), Schouten, A.C. (author)
Progress in diagnosis and treatment of movement disorders after neurological diseases like stroke, cerebral palsy (CP), dystonia and at old age requires understanding of the altered capacity to adequately respond to physical obstacles in the environment. With posture and movement disorders, the control of muscles is hampered, resulting in...
journal article 2015
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Van der Krogt, H. (author), Klomp, A. (author), De Groot, J.H. (author), De Vlugt, E. (author), Van der Helm, F.C.T. (author), Meskers, C.G.M. (author), Arendzen, J.H. (author)
Background: Understanding movement disorder after stroke and providing targeted treatment for post stroke patients requires valid and reliable identification of biomechanical (passive) and neural (active and reflexive) contributors. Aim of this study was to assess test-retest reliability of passive, active and reflexive parameters and to...
journal article 2015
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De Gooijer-van de Groep, K.L. (author), De Vlugt, E. (author), De Groot, J.H. (author), Van der Heijden-Maessen, H.C.M. (author), Wielheesen, D.H.M. (author), Van Wijlen-Hempel, R.M.S. (author), Arendzen, J.H. (author), Meskers, C.G.M. (author)
Background Spastic paresis in cerebral palsy (CP) is characterized by increased joint stiffness that may be of neural origin, i.e. improper muscle activation caused by e.g. hyperreflexia or non-neural origin, i.e. altered tissue viscoelastic properties (clinically: “spasticity” vs. “contracture”). Differentiation between these components is hard...
journal article 2013
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Van der Krogt, H.J.M. (author), Meskers, C.G.M. (author), De Groot, J.H. (author), Klomp, A. (author), Arendzen, J.H. (author)
Background: Movement disorders after stroke are still captured by clinical gaze and translated to ordinal scores of low resolution. There is a clear need for objective quantification, with outcome measures related to pathophysiological background. Neural and non-neural contributors to joint behavior should be separated using different...
journal article 2012
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De Vlugt, E. (author), Van Eesbeek, S. (author), Baines, P. (author), Hilte, J. (author), Meskers, C.G.M. (author), De Groot, J.H. (author)
Muscles behave as elastic springs during the initial strain phase, indicated as short range stiffness (SRS). Beyond a certain amount of strain the muscle demonstrates a more viscous behavior. The strain at which the muscle transits from elastic- to viscous-like behavior is called the elastic limit and is believed to be the result of breakage of...
journal article 2011
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De Vlugt, E. (author), De Groot, J.H. (author), Schenkeveld, K.E. (author), Arendzen, J.H. (author), Van der Helm, F.C.T. (author), Meskers, C.G.M. (author)
Quantifying increased joint resistance into its contributing factors i.e. stiffness and viscosity ("hypertonia") and stretch reflexes ("hyperreflexia") is important in stroke rehabilitation. Existing clinical tests, such as the Ashworth Score, do not permit discrimination between underlying tissue and reflexive (neural) properties. We propose an...
journal article 2010
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Meskers, C.G.M. (author), Schouten, A.C. (author), Rich, M.M.L. (author), De Groot, J.H. (author), Schuurmans, J. (author), Arendzen, J.H. (author)
The long latency M2 electromyographic response of a suddenly stretched active muscle is stretch duration dependent of which the nature is unclear. We investigated the inXuence of the group II aVerent blocker tizanidine on M2 response characteristics of the m. Xexor carpi radialis (FCR). M2 response magnitude and eliciting probability in a group...
journal article 2009
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Meskers, C.G.M. (author), Schouten, A.C. (author), De Groot, J.H. (author), De Vlugt, E. (author), Van Hilten, B.J.J. (author), Van der Helm, F.C.T. (author), Arendzen, H.J.H. (author)
Background Instead of hyper-reflexia as sole paradigm, post-stroke movement disorders are currently considered the result of a complex interplay between neuronal and muscular properties, modified by level of activity. We used a closed loop system identification technique to quantify individual contributors to wrist joint stiffness during an...
journal article 2009
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Schuurmans, J. (author), De Vlugt, E. (author), Schouten, A.C. (author), Meskers, C.G. (author), De Groot, J.H. (author), Van der Helm, F.C.T. (author)
Sudden stretch of active muscle typically results in two characteristic electromyographic responses: the short latency M1 and the long latency M2. The M1 response originates from the monosynaptic Ia afferent reflex pathway. The M2 response is less well understood and is likely a compound response to different afferent inputs mediated by spinal...
journal article 2009
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Kwakkel, G. (author), Meskers, C.G.M. (author), Van Wegen, E.E. (author), Lankhorst, G.J. (author), Geurts, A.C.H. (author), Van Kuijk, A.A. (author), Lindeman, E. (author), Visser-Meily, A. (author), Vlugt, E. (author), Arendzen, J.H. (author)
Main claims of the literature are that functional recovery of the paretic upper limb is mainly defined within the first month post stroke and that rehabilitation services should preferably be applied intensively and in a task-oriented way within this particular time window. EXplaining PLastICITy after stroke (acronym EXPLICIT-stroke) aims to...
journal article 2008
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Campfens, S.F. (author), Zandvliet, S.B. (author), Meskers, C.G.M. (author), Schouten, A.C. (author), Van Putten, M.J.A.M. (author), Van der Kooij, H. (author)
Abstract The possibility to regain motor function after stroke depends on the intactness of motor and sensory pathways. In this study, we evaluated afferent sensory pathway information transfer and processing after stroke with the coherence between cortical activity and a position perturbation (position-cortical coherence, PCC). Eleven subacute...
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