Surface EMG based muscle fatigue evaluation in biomechanics

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 327-340

  Cifrek, Mario ^a   Medved, Vladimir ^b   Tonković, Stanko ^a   Ostojić, Saša ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Biomedical signal processing; Muscle fatigue; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DYNAMIC TASKS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; MODERN SIGNAL PROCESSING; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NON-INVASIVE; QUANTITATIVE CRITERION; RECURRENCE QUANTIFICATION ANALYSIS; STATE-OF-THE ARTS; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; SURFACE EMG; TIME DOMAINS; TIME FREQUENCIES; TIME-SCALE;

BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERGONOMICS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MUSCLE;

BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIKE WAVE;

BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 62749154550     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2009.01.010     Document Type: Review

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