Pairs of discharges of single motor units recorded in the same or different muscles often show synchronisation above chance levels. If large numbers of units are synchronous within and between muscles then the synchrony will be measurable in population recordings such as surface EMG. Measuring synchrony between surface EMG recordings has a number of practical and scientific advantages compared ...

25 Rectification of surface electromyographic (EMG) recordings prior to their correlation 26 with other signals is a widely used form of preprocessing. Recently this practice has come into 27 question, elevating the subject of EMG rectification to a topic of much debate. Proponents for 28 rectifying suggest it accentuates the EMG spike timing information; whereas opponents indicate 29 it is unn...

An algorithm is proposed for processing and analyzing surface electromyography (SEMG) signals using wavelet transform and Higher Order Statistics (HOS). EMG signal acquires noise while travelling though different media. Wavelet denoising is performed in this research for initial EMG signal processing. With the appropriate choice of the Wavelet Function (WF), it is possible to remove interferenc...

muscle fatigue assessment has been the basis of numerous studies, specifically, in neuromuscular rehabilitation and the applications of fessystems. various emgbased techniques, in time and frequency domains, have been investigatedover years for the detection and evaluationof this phenomenon. the main objective of this study has beento evaluate the efficiency of applying a number of techniques w...

background: muscle fatigue is an important issue in neuromuscular rehabilitation. better control of this phenomenon would result in better prevention of its consequent physiological damages. objective: to provide a mathematical representation of muscle fatigue as a function of time. methods: we conducted this study by combining the emg-based estimation methods of muscle activation with the avai...

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of fatty tissue layer on EMG signal parameters as a function of force level and type of muscle in young women. On the basis of body mass index (BMI) and the amount of fatty tissue (FT) 30 young women were divided into two equal groups: obese (O) and reference group (R). The EMG signal was measured on 5 levels of load from 2 muscles: palmari...

Nowadays, analysis of electromyography (EMG) signal using wavelet transform is one of the most powerful signal processing tools. It is widely used in the EMG recognition system. In this study, we have investigated usefulness of extraction of the EMG features from multiple-level wavelet decomposition of the EMG signal. Different levels of various mother wavelets were used to obtain the useful re...

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 ...

Surface Electromyography (EMG) is a standard method used in clinical practice and research to assess motor function in order to help with the diagnosis of neuromuscular pathology in human and animal models. EMG recorded from trunk muscles involved in the activity of breathing can be used as a direct measure of respiratory motor function in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) or other disorde...

The proposed EMG signals analysis relies on the frequency domain where features of healthy EMG signal and myopathic EMG signals are analyzed and compared. Methodology described the relationship between the EMG signals and the properties of a contracting & myopathic muscle by analysing its power density spectrum. Periodogram Mean-Square Spectrum Estimate (PMSSE) of EMG Signal and the Power spect...