Purpose: The current study aimed at evaluating the effect of 5-toed shoes on electromyographic activity of leg muscles during the stance phase of running.  Methods: The current semi-experimental study recorded the electromyographic activity of tibialis anterior, soleus, gastrocnemius lateralis, and medialis muscles of 15 healthy male students (mean age: 24.5±3.4 years, mean height:...

OBJECTIVE To identify the effect of cervical muscle activity as an additional factor influencing the duration of the latent and active phase of labour. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING The Ljubljana Maternity Hospital. PARTICIPANTS Fifty healthy nulliparous women requiring induction of labour having relatively unripe cervices. METHODS At the onset of labour an open-ended ...

In this article short overview of existing methods of electromyography sensors placement and control strategies of the artificial prosthetic hand was made. Also the explanation of necessity for different strategies was given. The new methods and algorithms to process electromyographic signal were proposed. The experimental results for one of the described methods were shortly estimated and anal...

UNLABELLED Removal of electrocardiographic (ECG) contamination of electromyographic (EMG) signals from torso muscles is often attempted by high-pass filtering. This study investigated the effects of the cut-off frequency used in this high-pass filtering technique on the resulting EMG signal. Surface EMGs were recorded on five subjects from the rectus abdominis, external oblique, and erector spi...

A multi-source information fusion-based disease class classification of stroke patients was implemented to address the low accuracy pure input motion and electromyographic signals. sEMG sensor MYO arm ring wearable wireless Shimmer were used as data acquisition devices. The Butterworth high-pass filter filtering envelope thresholding method detected activity segment. Detection FIR using window ...

STUDY DESIGN An experimental study of healthy subjects' trunk muscle responses to force perturbations at differing angles and steady state efforts. OBJECTIVES To determine whether increased preactivation of muscles was associated with decreased likelihood of muscular activation in response to a transient force perturbation. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Trunk stability (ability to return to eq...