The different techniques to measure and analyze surface EMG are summarized with an emphasis on the clinician's point of view. The application of surface EMG in neurological disease is hampered by many inherent problems, especially the difficulties in extracting features of single motor units. However, the evolution of surface EMG from single bipolar recordings via a linear array of multiple ele...

8 Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) facilitates ambulatory function after paralysis by activating the muscles 9 of the lower extremities. The NMES-assisted stepping can either be triggered by a heel-switch (switch-trigger), or by 10 an electromyogram (EMG)-based gait event detector (EMG-trigger). The command sources—switch-trigger or 11 EMG-trigger—were presented to each group of six ...

Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) facilitates ambulatory function after paralysis by activating the muscles of the lower extremities. The NMES-assisted stepping can either be triggered by a heel-switch (switch-trigger), or by an electromyogram (EMG)-based gait event detector (EMG-trigger). The command sources—switch-trigger or EMG-trigger—were presented to each group of six chronic (>...

This paper considers the application of Blind Source Separation (BSS) to electromyographic (EMG) data as an approach to isolating individual motor unit potentials (MUPs). BSS was applied both to needle EMG (nEMG) and surface EMG (sEMG), and experimental results were obtained that demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach. BSS is proposed as a technique to be incorporated into EMG methodolo...

This study presents a frequency analysis of surface electromyogram (EMG) signals acquired by a linear electrode array from the biceps brachii muscles bilaterally in 14 hemiparetic stroke subjects. For different levels of isometric contraction ranging from 10 to 80% of the maximum voluntary contraction (MVC), the power spectra of 19 bipolar surface EMG channels arranged proximally to distally al...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the influence of selected physiological parameters on amplitude cancellation in the simulated surface electromyogram (EMG) and the consequences for spike-triggered averages of motor unit potentials derived from the interference and rectified EMG signals. The surface EMG was simulated from prescribed recruitment and rate coding characteristics of a motor ...

Electromyographic (EMG) signals from muscles in the body torso are often contaminated by electrocardiography (ECG) interferences, which consequently compromise EMG intensity estimation. The ECG interference has become a barrier to proportional control of myoelectric prosthesis using a neural machine interface called targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR), which involves transferring the residual a...