Evaluation of motor adaptation of healthy persons according to space-time kinematics data

Abstract

An important problem of modern clinical biomechanics is to identify complex movement markers that make it possible to evaluate complex motor adaptive reactions regardless of age, gender, and anthropometric deviations. The purpose of the present study was to develop a method for analysis of human motor adaptive reactions based on calculating specific biomechanical markers obtained by performing diverse kinematic tests. The study involved 90 volunteers with a right-leading kinematic side at an age of 18.8 [16.8/20.8] years, with a height of 171.8 [179.2/164.8] cm, a body weight of 65.3 [76.6/58.5] kg, and the ratio of men and women – 5 : 4. During the study, all participants underwent biomechanical analysis using the TESLASUIT remote motion capture suit and performing diverse kinematic tests. In the course of the study, a new method for analyzing human motor adaptive reactions was developed. It is based on calculating specific time markers of the active phase, average angular deviation markers, and inertial kinematic markers. All markers are calculated after each kinematic tests “frontal stability”, “sagittal stability”, “spatial orientation”, and “stimulus identification”. Our survey revealed that specific (p < 0.001) markers of the first test are the time indicators of the active phase, the markers of the second and fourth tests are associated with the average angular deviation parameters, and the specific indicators of the third test can be the inertial kinematics of thighs, legs, and feet.