Method for monitoring performance of back muscles
First Claim
1. A method for analyzing muscle function comprising the steps of:
- (a) locating in a human control subject a predetermined muscle group activatable to produce a given torque, said muscle group including bilaterally distributed right and left muscles disposed on opposite sides of a saggital plane and cooperatively activated to control position of a given body joint;
(b) fixing over each of said bilaterally distributed right and left muscles an electrode adapted to detect myoelectric signals generated therein;
(c) activating simultaneously said muscles to generate myoelectric signals therein while immobilizing the body portion retaining said muscle group;
(d) processing said myoelectric signals to determine a plurality of predetermined values thereof, said predetermined values comprising predetermined right values associated with said right muscles and predetermined left values associated with said left muscles;
(e) repeating steps (a), (b), (c) and (d) for each of a plurality of other control subjects;
(f) determining a normative range of said predetermined values determined in steps (d) and (e);
(g) repeating steps (a), (b), (c) and (d) for a human test subject; and
(h) comparing said predetermined values determined in step (g) with said normative range determined in step (f) to identify thereby dysfunction in said muscle group of said test subject.
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Abstract
A method for analyzing muscle function including the steps of: (a) locating in a human control subject a predetermined muscle group activatable to produce a given torque; (b) fixing over each of a plurality of individual muscles in the group an electrode adapted to detect myoelectric signals generated therein; (c) activating of the muscles to generate myoelectric signals therein; (d) processing the myoelectric signals to determine a plurality of predetermined values thereof; (e) repeating steps (a), (b), (c) and (d) for each of a plurality of other control subjects; (f) determining a normative range of the predetermined values determined in steps (d) and (e); (g) repeating steps (a), (b), (c) and (d) for a human test subject; and (h) comparing the predetermined values determined in step (g) with the normative range determined in step (f). Dysfunction in the muscle group of the test subject can be determined by comparison of the processed myoelectric signal values.
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13 Claims
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1. A method for analyzing muscle function comprising the steps of:
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(a) locating in a human control subject a predetermined muscle group activatable to produce a given torque, said muscle group including bilaterally distributed right and left muscles disposed on opposite sides of a saggital plane and cooperatively activated to control position of a given body joint; (b) fixing over each of said bilaterally distributed right and left muscles an electrode adapted to detect myoelectric signals generated therein; (c) activating simultaneously said muscles to generate myoelectric signals therein while immobilizing the body portion retaining said muscle group; (d) processing said myoelectric signals to determine a plurality of predetermined values thereof, said predetermined values comprising predetermined right values associated with said right muscles and predetermined left values associated with said left muscles; (e) repeating steps (a), (b), (c) and (d) for each of a plurality of other control subjects; (f) determining a normative range of said predetermined values determined in steps (d) and (e); (g) repeating steps (a), (b), (c) and (d) for a human test subject; and (h) comparing said predetermined values determined in step (g) with said normative range determined in step (f) to identify thereby dysfunction in said muscle group of said test subject. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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