Changes in EMG signals for the muscle tibialis anterior while running barefoot or with shoes resolved by non-linearly scaled wavelets

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1169-1176

  Von Tscharner, Vinzenz ^a   Goepfert, Beat ^a   Nigg, Benno M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Locomotion; Time frequency analysis; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

LOWER FREQUENCY SIGNALS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RUNNING; SHOE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TIME; TOE;

EID: 0038047889     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(03)00086-1     Document Type: Article

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