Interactions of costimulated muscle in paraplegics

Author

Rategh, Hamid Reza ; Chizeck, Howard J.

Author_Institution

VA Motion Study Lab., Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1996

Firstpage

439

Abstract

The torque production of electrically stimulated short-head biceps and quadriceps muscles in complete paraplegic subjects is investigated. During isometric costimulation of this agonist-antagonist pair, the resultant torque is not the simple sum of the torque of the muscles if they were stimulated separately. This has important implications for the use of costimulated muscle in FES neuroprosthetic devices

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biomechanics; muscle; prosthetics; torque; FES neuroprosthetic devices; agonist-antagonist pair; complete paraplegic subjects; costimulated muscle interactions; electrically stimulated short-head biceps muscles; functional electrical stimulation; isometric costimulation; muscle torque; paralysed people; quadriceps muscles; Biological control systems; Electrodes; Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society; Extremities; Muscles; Neural prosthesis; Production; Pulse width modulation; Sequences; Torque;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3811-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1996.657032

Filename

657032