%0 Journal Article
%T Altera£¿£¿es eletromiogr¨¢ficas dos m¨²sculos do tronco de pacientes com hemiparesia ap¨®s acidente vascular encef¨¢lico
%A Marcucci
%A Fernando Cesar Iwamoto
%A Cardoso
%A Nath¨¢lia Sigill¨®
%A Berteli
%A Karla de Souza
%A Garanhani
%A M¨¢rcia Regina
%A Cardoso
%A Jefferson Rosa
%J Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
%D 2007
%I Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO
%R 10.1590/S0004-282X2007000500035
%X stroke is the main cause of chronic disability in adults, but few studies evaluated the trunk motor activity in affected subjects. objective: to compare the myoelectrical activity of trunk muscle in hemiparetic and control subjects. method: eight hemiparetic and eight control subjects were assessed during lower extremities flexion and trunk rotation in supine position; stand up and rise up upper extremities in seated position. results: paretic rectus abdominis presented a higher activation than control group (p=0.031) during lower extremities elevation. obliquus externus abdominis showed a bilateral higher activation during lower extremities elevation than rotation activities (p=0.014 and p=0.002, respectively). there was no difference in extension activities comparison. conclusion: trunk flexor muscles of hemiparetic subjects demonstrated motor alterations in rectus abdominis of paretic side and compensations were used with obliquus externus.
%K stroke
%K paresis
%K electromyography
%K motor activity.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0004-282X2007000500035&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en