A system for simultaneous signals acquisition of EMG activity, bite force, and muscle pain, reveals the rotation of synergistic activity in the human jaw elevator muscles

Author

Palumbo, A. ; Farella, Mauro ; Avecone, S. ; Pace, Calogero ; Cocorullo, Giuseppe

Author_Institution

Univ. of Calabria, Rende

fYear

2007

fDate

1-3 May 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Aim of the present study was to describe a multipurpose system to be used in oral physiology research, which has been developed in order to simultaneously acquire multiple signals from the masticatory muscles (i.e. bite force, EMG activity, and muscle pain). A preliminary study was carried out to test the performance of this system in ten subjects. We investigated the effect of prolonged isometric jaw clenching at different force levels on the EMG activity of paired masseter and temporalis muscles, while monitoring bite force and local pain perceived in the muscle investigated.

Keywords

biomedical measurement; electromyography; muscle; EMG activity; bite force; human jaw elevator muscles; masseter muscles; masticatory muscles; muscle pain; oral physiology research; prolonged isometric jaw clenching; signals acquisition; synergistic activity rotation; temporalis muscles; Data acquisition; Electromyography; Elevators; Fatigue; Force feedback; Force measurement; Humans; Masticatory muscles; Pain; Signal processing; Bite force measurements; electromyography; fatigue; jaw muscles; pain measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings, 2007. IMTC 2007. IEEE

Conference_Location

Warsaw

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0588-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2007.379435

Filename

4258504