Subject-specific muscle synergies in human balance control are consistent across different biomechanical contexts.

By G. Torres-Oviedo, Lena H. Ting. Journal of Neurophysiology, 2010

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Muscle synergy patterns as physiological markers of motor cortical damage (2012, methodology): “Other investigators have used factorization analysis to gain a new understanding of spinal cord functions (5–8), of postural control (9, 10), and of motor development (11, 12).”
Is my model good enough? Best practices for verification and validation of musculoskeletal models and simulations of movement. (2015, background): “There is evidence that a consistent set of muscle synergies is used between tasks such as postural perturbations in a range of directions [142] or cycling at a range of speeds [143], and that the number/complexity of synergies is reduced in pathologies that affect the motor control system, such as p”
The neural origin of muscle synergies (2013, background): “Consistent with this interpretation, muscle synergies were observed to be robust across very different biomechanical or behavioral contexts (Cheung et al.,2009a; Torres-Oviedo and Ting, 2010; Chvatal et al., 2011).”
Common muscle synergies for balance and walking (2013, methodology): “…Safavynia and Ting, 2012) as well as across biomechanical contexts [e.g., standing with wide, narrow, crouched, or single-limb stance (Torres-Oviedo et al., 2006; Torres-Oviedo and Ting, 2010)], can be accounted for by the differential modulation of a common set of muscle synergies for balance.”