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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2021

Editorial: Surface Electromyography: Barriers Limiting Widespread Use of sEMG in Clinical Assessment and Neurorehabilitation.

Roberto Merletti, Isabella Campanini, William Z Rymer, Catherine Disselhorst-Klug

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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24citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Gait analysis methods in people with spinal cord injury: a systematic review.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026
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  11. Surface EMG in China: a report on the 2023 surface EMG symposium.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2024
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  17. Current developments in surface electromyography.Turkish journal of medical sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Roberto MerlettiLaboratory for Engineering of the Neuromuscular System (LISiN), Department of Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy.
Isabella CampaniniLAM - Motion Analysis Laboratory, Correggio, Neuromotor and Rehabilitation Department, Azienda Unita' Sanitaria Locale, Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
William Z RymerShirley Ryan Ability Lab, Single Motor Unit Laboratory, Chicago, IL, United States.
Catherine Disselhorst-KlugDepartment of Rehabilitation and Prevention Engineering, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

administrative barriersclinical usecultural barrierseducational barriersHDsEMGsEMGsurface electromyographytechnical barriers

Identifiers

PMID33643215
PMCPMC7906963

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