A review of non-invasive techniques to detect and predict localised muscle fatigue

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3545-3594

  Al Mulla, Mohamed R ^a   Sepulveda, Francisco ^a   Colley, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Feature extraction; Muscle fatigue; sEMG

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOGRAPHY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPORTS MEDICINE;

HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MYOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPORTS MEDICINE;

EID: 79953841876     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110403545     Document Type: Article

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