Trapezius muscle EMG as predictor of mental stress

Proceedings - Wireless Health 2010, WH'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 155-163

  Wijsman, Jacqueline ^a,b   Grundlehner, Bernard ^b   Penders, Julien ^b   Hermens, Hermie ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c ROESSINGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

electromyography; mental stress; upper trapezius muscle

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY MONITORING; EMG SIGNAL; MEDIAN FREQUENCY; MENTAL STRESS; MUSCLE TENSION; STRESS CONDITION; STRESS LEVELS; STRESS TEST; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; UPPER TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; WIRELESS SYSTEMS; WORK STRESS;

EXPERIMENTS; HEALTH;

MUSCLE;

EID: 79951624758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1921081.1921100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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