Methodological aspects of SEMG recordings for force estimation–a tutorial and review

D Staudenmann, K Roeleveld, DF Stegeman… - … of electromyography and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Insight into the magnitude of muscle forces is important in biomechanics research, for
example because muscle forces are the main determinants of joint loading. Unfortunately …

Neural data-driven musculoskeletal modeling for personalized neurorehabilitation technologies

M Sartori, DG Llyod, D Farina - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objectives: The development of neurorehabilitation technologies requires the profound
understanding of the mechanisms underlying an individual's motor ability and impairment. A …

Overloaded and at work: Investigating the effect of cognitive workload on assembly task performance

FN Biondi, A Cacanindin, C Douglas, J Cort - Human factors, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective This study investigates the effect of cognitive overload on assembly task
performance and muscle activity. Background Understanding an operator's cognitive …

Neural mechanisms of intermuscular coherence: implications for the rectification of surface electromyography

TW Boonstra, M Breakspear - Journal of neurophysiology, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
Oscillatory activity plays a crucial role in corticospinal control of muscle synergies and is
widely investigated using corticospinal and intermuscular synchronization. However, the …

Intermuscular coherence reflects functional coordination

CM Laine, FJ Valero-Cuevas - Journal of neurophysiology, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Coherence analysis has the ability to identify the presence of common descending drive
shared by motor unit pools and reveals its spectral properties. However, the link between …

On the methodological implications of extracting muscle synergies from human locomotion

A Santuz, A Ekizos, L Janshen… - … journal of neural …, 2017 - World Scientific
We investigated the influence of three different high-pass (HP) and low-pass (LP) filtering
conditions and a Gaussian (GNMF) and inverse-Gaussian (IGNMF) non-negative matrix …

Muscle activity during the active straight leg raise (ASLR), and the effects of a pelvic belt on the ASLR and on treadmill walking

H Hu, OG Meijer, JH Van Dieen, PW Hodges… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
Women with pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain (PPP), or athletes with groin pain, may
have trouble with the active straight leg raise (ASLR), for which a pelvic belt can be …

Identification of constant-posture EMG–torque relationship about the elbow using nonlinear dynamic models

EA Clancy, L Liu, P Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The surface electromyogram (EMG) from biceps and triceps muscles of 33 subjects was
related to elbow torque, contrasting EMG amplitude (EMGσ) estimation processors …

Low-level activity of the trunk extensor muscles causes electromyographic manifestations of fatigue in absence of decreased oxygenation

JH van Dieën, EP Westebring-van der Putten… - Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
This study was designed to determine whether trunk extensor fatigue occurs during low-
level activity and whether this is associated with a drop in muscle tissue oxygenation …

An EMG-driven musculoskeletal model of the shoulder

AA Nikooyan, HEJ Veeger, P Westerhoff… - Human movement …, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper aims to develop an EMG-driven model of the shoulder that can consider possible
muscle co-contractions. A musculoskeletal shoulder model (the original model) is modified …