IRCCS FONDAZIONE OSPEDALE SAN CAMILLO
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
ON
MUSCLE SYNERGIES
WCNR 2014 SATELLITE MEETING
Venice (Italy) April 4-5, 2014
and Training
event
on stroke rehabilitation
Venice (Italy) April 3, 2014
PATRONAGE
World Federation for Neurorehabilitation - WFNR
Società Italiana di Riabilitazione Neurologica - SIRN
FINAL PROGRAM
TRAINING EVENT ON STROKE REHABILITATION
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
Training activities organized
within the EU-FP7 project MYOSENS
09.00 Welcome
Impairment of the motor system after stroke: evidence
from pathophysiology and imaging
09.15 Muscle synergies as a filter of dimensionality for motor control:
neurophysiological evidence from animal to human research
Cheung V.C.K. (Boston)
10.00 Brain imaging after stroke: from diagnosis to detection of brain
reorganization during recovery
Venneri A. (Sheffield - Venezia)
10.45 Discussion
11.15 Break
Motor rehabilitation after stroke: clinical evidence and
translation of research to patient’s bedside
11.45 Information and Communication Technology to support self-managed
stroke rehabilitation; utilising a participatory design methodology
Mawson S.J. (Sheffield)
12.30 Clinical assessment of motor recovery after stroke
Turolla A. (Venezia)
13.15 Discussion
13.45 Lunch
Complementary skills: systematic reviews and statistics
15.00 What’s the evidence? The Cochrane methodology for systematic
review of the literature
Moja L. (Milano)
16.00 Can I make an inference? Robust methods for statistical analysis
in clinical trials
Ventura L. (Padova)
17.00 Discussion
17.30 ECM Questionnaire and event closing
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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
ON MUSCLE SYNERGIES
Although knowledge on CNS has been growing in the last years,
many aspects of functioning of motor system are still unclear.
Successful execution of voluntary movements relies on the functional integration of several regions of the CNS (e.g. M1, dorsal and ventral premotor areas, the supplementary motor area)
that produce descending signals directed to the spinal interneurons and motoneurons. An additional factor compounding the
difficulty of deciphering the nature of descending motor activities is the fact that the CNS needs to coordinate the actions of a
large number of muscles with thousands of motor units in the
limbs for even the simplest movements. How the motor system
coordinates the activations of the muscles remains still obscure.
Presumably, the CNS copes with this apparent difficulty of controlling movements by a certain simplified control strategy.
Several scientists have put forward the hypothesis that descending cortical signals represent neuronal drives which select,
activate and combine, in a flexible way, spinal cord modules
expressing robust muscle synergies. Different motor behaviors
then emerge as different synergies are recruited to different
degrees of activation. A better knowledge of muscle synergies
could be crucial for neurorehabilitation, because it could represent the necessary requirement for more convenient and personalized motor treatments. This international workshop aims to
introduce a constructive debate on the current state of the art
on the mechanisms regulating muscle synergies for motor behavior. The most eminent scientists in the field are invited to enlighten the best evidence available in basic science, clinical applications and technical developments implicated with the idea of
muscle synergies.
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MUSCLE SYNERGIES
FRIDAY, APRIL 4
08.30 Registration
09.15 Opening
MUSCLE SYNERGIES: theoretical principles from movement neuroscience
Chairmen: Birbaumer N. (Tübingen, Venezia), Manganotti P. (Verona)
09.30 On the functional organization and operational principles
of the motor system
Bizzi E. (Boston)
10.10 Cortical regulation of muscle synergies: a model for motor cortex control
Drew T. (Montreal)
10.50 Coffee break
11.30 Muscle synergies and motor adaptation
D’Avella A. (Roma)
12.10 Proving the existence of muscle synergies of neural origin
Kutch J. (Los Angeles)
12.50 Discussion
13.30 Break
MUSCLE SYNERGIES: clinical implications
Chairmen: Molinari M. (Roma), Smania N. (Verona)
14.30 Identifying muscle synergies and genes as target for rehabilitation
therapies through animals and humans studies
Cheung V.C.K. (Boston)
15.10 Muscle synergy patterns in hemiparetic walking performance
Kautz S. (Charleston)
15.50 Neural substrates of muscle synergies in upper limb: insights from
imaging after stroke
Turolla A. (Venezia)
16.30 Discussion and closing session
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MUSCLE SYNERGIES
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
MUSCLE SYNERGIES as controller for body machine interface
Chairmen: Millàn J. (Lausanne), Masiero S. (Padova)
09.00 Muscle synergies for estimation of dynamics in
neuro-musculoskeletal models
Reggiani M. (Padova)
09.40 Robustness of extracting muscle synergies for control
of prosthetics
Farina D. (Göttingen)
10.20 Break
11.00 Neural network controller for human movements
Conforto S. (Roma)
11.40 Muscle synergies during robot-based neurorehabilitation
Micera S. (Lausanne)
12.20 Discussion
13.00 ECM Questionnaire and closing remarks
GENERAL INFORMATION
MEETING VENUE
CONFERENCE ROOM - IRCCS FONDAZIONE OSPEDALE SAN CAMILLO
Via Alberoni, 70 - 30126 Venezia Lido (Italy)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Emilio Bizzi - M.I.T. Boston
Paolo Tonin - IRCCS San Camillo Venezia
Andrea Turolla - IRCCS San Camillo Venezia
LOCAL COMMITTEE
IRCCS FONDAZIONE OSPEDALE SAN CAMILLO
Viviana Zanin
Giulia Vinci
Luca Scattorin
segreteria.scientifica@ospedalesancamillo.net - Tel. +39 041 2207269
ORGANIZING SECRETARIAT
Centro Italiano Congressi
Corso Trieste, 42 - 00198 Roma (Italy)
Tel: +39 06 8412673 - Fax: +39 06 8412687 - congressi@gruppocic.it
CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
A certificate of attendance will be available on request at the registration desk
LANGUAGE
The official language is English
C.M.E. ACCREDITATION
Italian credits have been requested for physicians specialized in
Neurology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and for Physiotherapists.
Credits will be assigned only if the partecipant has attended the whole
Workshop (or the whole Training Event) and completed and signed the
self-evaluation questionnaire
GENERAL INFORMATION
REGISTRATION FEES
REGISTRATION FEES for International Workshop on Muscle Synergies (taxes included)
Early Registration
deadline 6/3/2014
Late Registration
deadline 30/3/2014
On-site Registration
Physician WFNR or SIRN member
130 Euro
180 Euro
240 Euro
Physician non member
210 Euro
250 Euro
280 Euro
Non-Physician WFNR, SIRN,
AIFI or SIF member
100 Euro
130 Euro
180 Euro
Non-Physician non member
150 Euro
170 Euro
210 Euro
Trainee Physician
110 Euro
140 Euro
200 Euro
Student
90 Euro
110 Euro
120 Euro
REGISTRATION FEES for Training Event (taxes included)
Thursday, April, 3, only
70 Euro
90 Euro
100 Euro
The registration to the Workshop on Muscle Synergies includes the participation to
the training event. A discount of 15% will be recognized to the participants already
registered to the WCNR 2014 (www.wcnr2014.org)
For registration: www.centroitalianocongressi.it/venicemusclesynergies2014
Cancellations will be accepted in writing until March, 15. Until that time a refund of 50%
of the registration fee will be made. There will be no refunds for cancellations received
after that date. All refunds will be made after the meeting.
HINTS FOR TRAVELLING
FROM AIRPORT MARCO POLO - VENICE - Waterbus Alilaguna, line blue, direction Lido, boat
stop: Lido of Venice (Santa Maria Elisabetta). Please check http://www.alilaguna.it/en/linea-blu for
timetable, tickets and further information
FROM TRAIN STATION - Waterbus ACTV, line 5.1, direction Lido, boat stop: Lido of Venice (Santa
Maria Elisabetta). Please check http://www.actv.it/en/movingmainland/urbanlines for timetable,
tickets and further information
FROM BUS TERMINAL PIAZZALE ROMA - Waterbus ACTV, lines 5.1 and 6, direction Lido, boat
stop: Lido of Venice (Santa Maria Elisabetta). Please check http://www.actv.it/en/movingmainland/urbanlines for timetable, tickets and further information.
ONCE ON LIDO ISLAND (Santa Maria Elisabetta), bus line A from the boat stop Santa Maria
Elisabetta, direction Alberoni. You will find the Hospital on your left (after ca. 15 min.)
FROM CAR TERMINAL FUSINA - Waterbus “Terminal Fusina”, direct line service to the Hospital.
Please check http://www.terminalfusina.it/ for timetable, tickets and further information.
MEETING VENUE - More information about the meeting venue (including maps) can be found on
the website of the Hospital (http://www.ospedalesancamillo.net/).