Surface Electromyography in Physiotherapist Educational Program in France: Enhancing Learning sEMG in Stretching Practice.

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a non-invasive method, which may be used in France by health practitioners without medical degree, such as physiotherapists, who are taught in Institutes of physiotherapy. However, very few hours are devoted to sEMG teaching in physiotherapist educational programs, especially in a form of practical work. In order to motivate using sEMG in physiotherapy to the students, we propose an example of sEMG practical work, applied to muscle stretching.

The biomechanical model of the long finger extensor mechanism and its parametric identification.

The extensor mechanism of the finger is a structure transmitting the forces from several muscles to the finger joints. Force transmission in the extensor mechanism is usually modeled by equations with constant coefficients which are determined experimentally only for finger extension posture. However, the coefficient values change with finger flexion because of the extensor mechanism deformation.

Influence of Cervical Muscle Fatigue on Musculo-Tendinous Stiffness of the Head-Neck Segment during Cervical Flexion.

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine if the fatigue of cervical muscles has a significant influence on the head-neck segment musculo-tendinous stiffness.

Methods: Ten men (aged 21.2 ± 1.

Feature extraction of the first difference of EMG time series for EMG pattern recognition.

This paper demonstrates the utility of a differencing technique to transform surface EMG signals measured during both static and dynamic contractions such that they become more stationary. The technique was evaluated by three stationarity tests consisting of the variation of two statistical properties, i.e.