SynthesisJournal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions2018
A systematic review of muscle activity assessment of the biceps brachii muscle using mechanomyography.
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- Effect of Forearm Postures and Elbow Joint Angles on Elbow Flexion Torque and Mechanomyography in Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation of the Biceps Brachii.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Mechanomyographic Analysis for Muscle Activity Assessment during a Load-Lifting Task.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Analysis of anthropometrics and mechanomyography signals as forearm flexion, pronation and supination torque predictors.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- A Coupled Piezoelectric Sensor for MMG-Based Human-Machine Interfaces.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Randomized-Controlled Trial Examining the Effect of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training in the Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence in Men after a Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy Pilot Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
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- Analysis of the crosstalk in mechanomyographic signals along the longitudinal, lateral and transverse axes of elbow flexor muscles during sustained isometric forearm flexion, supination and pronation exercises.Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions · 2020Article
- Parkinson patients without tremor show changed patterns of mechanical muscle oscillations during a specific bilateral motor task compared to controls.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
This systematic review aims to categorically analyses the literature on the assessment of biceps brachii (BB) muscle activity through mechanomyography (MMG). The application of our search criteria to five different databases identified 319 studies. A critical review of the 48 finally selected records, revealed the diversity of protocols and parameters that are employed in MMG-based assessments of BB muscle activity. The observations were categorized into the following: muscle torque, fatigue, strength and physiology. The available information on the muscle contraction protocol, sensor(s), MMG signal parameters and obtained results were then tabulated based on these categories for further analysis. The review affirms that - 1) MMG is suitable for skeletal muscle activity assessment and can be employed potentially for further investigation of the BB muscle activity and condition (e.g., force, torque, fatigue, and contractile properties), 2) a majority of the records focused on static contractions of the BB, and the analysis of dynamic muscle contractions using MMG is thus a research gap, and 3) very few studies have focused on the analysis of BB muscle activity under externally stimulated contractions. Taken together, the findings of this review on BB activity assessment using MMG affirm the potential of MMG as an alternative tool.
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