Analysis of Coordination Variability: Pilot Study

The central nervous system is in charge of organizing all the necessary motor variables to guarantee the correct performance task. One of the characteristics of functional movement that is rarely evaluated and analyzed in clinical practice is motor coordination and its preference during the rehabilitation process. For this reason, this research work analyzes a functional task executed repeatedly in order to identify the coordination between the movements involved and the same tendency that exists in healthy subjects to execute the same task under the pattern engine. Five healthy volunteers performed movements of the eating gesture. The movements were recorded by the Kinect® sensor under self-developed software. The results show that there is a low tendency for volunteers to repeat the motor gesture with the same motor pattern, varying the coordination of the movements involved in the proposed motor gesture.