Investigation of upper limb muscle activity during repetitive light task using surface electromyography (SEMG)

TIC-STH'09: 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference - Science and Technology for Humanity

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 230-233

  Zadry, Hilma Raimona ^a   Dawal, Siti Zawiah Md ^a   Taha, Zahari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Muscle activity; Muscle fatigue; Repetitive tasks; Surface EMG; Upper limb muscle

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE ACTIVITIES; MUSCLE FATIGUES; REPETITIVE TASK; SURFACE EMG; UPPER LIMB MUSCLE; UPPER LIMBS;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; INSTRUMENT SCALES; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TEMPERATURE INDICATING CAMERAS;

MUSCLE;

EID: 77952725029     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TIC-STH.2009.5444500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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