Fatigue in complete spinal cord injury and implications on total delay.

The use of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) to artificially restore movement in people with complete spinal cord injury (SCI) induces an accelerated process of muscle fatigue. Fatigue increases the time between the beginning of NMES and the onset of muscle force (Delay ). Understanding how much muscle fatigue affects the Delay in people with SCI could help in the design of closed-loop neuroprostheses that compensate for this delay, thus making the control system more stable.