SynthesisPloS one2013
Mechanomyogram for muscle function assessment: a review.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review of muscle activity assessment of the biceps brachii muscle using mechanomyography.Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions · 2018Pooled it
- Association of anthropometric parameters with amplitude and crosstalk of mechanomyographic signals during forearm flexion, pronation and supination torque tasks.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- From muscles to motion: the role of sensor layout and physiological factors in hand motion decoding.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Live magnetomyography and robotic-hand proxy control using a wearable triaxial optically pumped magnetometer.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Technologies to investigate the mechanisms of force-based manipulations: a narrative methods review.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Continuous wavelet transform-based analysis of shoulder muscle fatigue during dynamic abduction: a surface electromyography study.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Prospective evaluation of mechanomyography versus triggered electromyography for intraoperative assessment of cortical breaches during instrumented lumbar surgery.North American Spine Society journal · 2025Article
- Water, Collagen, and Lipid Content in the Human Skin and Muscles Assessed with Near-Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy and Multi-Spectral Optoacoustic Tomography.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Fatigue analysis of the flexor digitorum superficialis muscle using mechanomyogram during moderate-intensity intermittent dynamic tasks.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Insights into motor impairment assessment using myographic signals with artificial intelligence: a scoping review.Biomedical engineering letters · 2025Review
- A MEMS seismometer respiratory monitor for work of breathing assessment and adventitious lung sounds detection via deep learning.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Displacement MMG-based estimation of dynamic muscle viscoelasticity in the quadriceps during passive pedaling.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Implementation and Feasibility of Mechanomyography in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
- Estimation of elbow flexion torque using equilibrium optimizer on feature selection of NMES MMG signals and hyperparameter tuning of random forest regression.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2025Article
- Review on Portable-Powered Lower Limb Exoskeletons.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- A Multimodal Bracelet to Acquire Muscular Activity and Gyroscopic Data to Study Sensor Fusion for Intent Detection.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Adaptive Induction of Nonshivering Thermogenesis in Muscle Rather Than Brown Fat Could Counteract Obesity.Physiological research · 2024Review
- Distributed Wearable Ultrasound Sensors Predict Isometric Ground Reaction Force.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Accessory respiratory muscles performance among people with spinal cord injury while singing songs with different musical parameters.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundMechanomyography (MMG) has been extensively applied in clinical and experimental practice to examine muscle characteristics including muscle function (MF), prosthesis and/or switch control, signal processing, physiological exercise, and medical rehabilitation. Despite several existing MMG studies of MF, there has not yet been a review of these. This study aimed to determine the current status on the use of MMG in measuring the conditions of MFs. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL
findingsFive electronic databases were extensively searched for potentially eligible studies published between 2003 and 2012. Two authors independently assessed selected articles using an MS-Word based form created for this review. Several domains (name of muscle, study type, sensor type, subject's types, muscle contraction, measured parameters, frequency range, hardware and software, signal processing and statistical analysis, results, applications, authors' conclusions and recommendations for future work) were extracted for further analysis. From a total of 2184 citations 119 were selected for full-text evaluation and 36 studies of MFs were identified. The systematic results find sufficient evidence that MMG may be used for assessing muscle fatigue, strength, and balance. This review also provides reason to believe that MMG may be used to examine muscle actions during movements and for monitoring muscle activities under various types of exercise paradigms. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Overall judging from the increasing number of articles in recent years, this review reports sufficient evidence that MMG is increasingly being used in different aspects of MF. Thus, MMG may be applied as a useful tool to examine diverse conditions of muscle activity. However, the existing studies which examined MMG for MFs were confined to a small sample size of healthy population. Therefore, future work is needed to investigate MMG, in examining MFs between a sufficient number of healthy subjects and neuromuscular patients.
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