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Surface Electromyography Meets Biomechanics or Bringing sEMG to Clinical Application

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Abstract

Impaired muscular activation causes pain, disability and loss of quality of life. To preserve and to restore movement performance is a challenge, and technologies enabling more effective treatment have gained high importance. Surface-Electromyography (sEMG) technologies allow the pain-free assessment of muscular activation, but they have rarely been taken out from the laboratory into everyday life, yet. This crucial step can only be taken if sEMG achieves high acceptance by the end-users. The challenge is to identify, adjust or develop sEMG tools, signal processing strategies, and application procedures enabling sEMG to meet the expectations of physicians, therapists, and patients. Two examples are given showing how integration of biomechanical knowledge improves interpretation of sEMG in dynamic contractions and helps to gain clinical relevant information.

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  1. Department of Rehabilitation and Prevention Engineering, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Catherine Disselhorst-Klug, Sybele Williams & Sylvie C. F. A. von Werder

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  1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Lorenzo Masia

  2. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Translational Neural Engineering Area, The BioRobotics Institute, Pisa, Italy

    Silvestro Micera

  3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, TX, USA

    Metin Akay

  4. Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José L. Pons

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Disselhorst-Klug, C., Williams, S., von Werder, S.C.F.A. (2019). Surface Electromyography Meets Biomechanics or Bringing sEMG to Clinical Application. In: Masia, L., Micera, S., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III. ICNR 2018. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01845-0_203

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