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Signal Characteristics of EMG at Different Levels of Muscle Tension

Jukka T. ViitasaloPaavo V. Komi

subject

Adolescentmedicine.diagnostic_testElectromyographyPhysiologyAnatomyElectromyographySignalMotor unitMuscle TonusRise timeMuscle tensionMotor unit recruitmentmedicineHumansFemalemedicine.symptomMuscle ContractionBiomedical engineeringMuscle forceMathematicsMuscle contraction

description

Electromyographic activity of m. rectus femoris at submaximal and maximal voluntary contractions was quantified by conventional integration technique and also be a more "qualitative" procedure of automated motor unit averaging and frequency spectrum analysis. By relating the EMG parameters to produced muscle tension it was observed that the integrated EMG increased in a slightly nonlinear fashion with the increase in muscle force. The other EMG variables also showed clear changes as a function of muscle tension. The averaged motor unit potential (AMUP) and its specific parameters (number of spikes, amplitude, rise time and amplitude-rise time ratio) showed such changes with muscle tension that they may be useful in estimation of the recruitment pattern of the different types of motor units.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
1976-02-01Acta Physiologica Scandinavica
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-1716.1976.tb10195.x