Effect of electrode location on EMG signal envelope in leg muscles during gait.

The aim of the study was to assess the variability of EMG signal envelope with electrode location during gait. Surface EMG signals were recorded from 10 healthy subjects from the tibialis anterior (TA), peroneus longus (PL), gastrocnemius medialis (GM), gastrocnemius lateralis (GL), and soleus (SO) muscles. From TA, PL, GL and GM, signals were acquired using a two-dimensional grid of 4 x 3 electrodes (10 x 15 mm in size, as used in most gait laboratories) with 20-mm interelectrode distance in both directions.

[Experience in prevention of risks caused by manual movement of patients in a health institution].

In its hospitals, the local Reggio Emilia Division of the National Health Service has introduced beds and stretchers with up-and-down movement systems, electrical lifters for patients, and highly mobile trained more than one thousand workers in the correct execution of maneuvers for moving patients manually platforms and litters for transferring patients from stretcher to bed. The Division has also. The risk evaluation models available in the literature have proved to be inadequate for instituting a program of improving service or for adequately supporting the doctor in charge.

[Intertrochanteric osteotomy of the hip. Retrospective (10-18 years) clinical and radiologic study of 30 interventions].

The authors report on 28 patients with degenerative arthritis of the hip who underwent intertrochanteric osteotomy of the femur between 1970 and 1978. Two subjects were operated on bilaterally, bringing the total number of hips to 30. The follow-up period averaged 11.