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ReviewJournal of neural engineering2021

Myoelectric control of robotic lower limb prostheses: a review of electromyography interfaces, control paradigms, challenges and future directions.

Aaron Fleming, Nicole Stafford, Stephanie Huang, Xiaogang Hu, Daniel P Ferris, He Helen Huang

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of neural engineering, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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61citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

61 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. EMG-driven control in lower limb prostheses: a topic-based systematic review.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022
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  12. Preliminary Investigation of Myoelectric Control of an Assistive Neck Exoskeleton by Individuals With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2026
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  13. Using EMG Biofeedback to Restore Closed-Loop Neural Control on a Powered Prosthetic Ankle.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2026
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  14. Locomotion Decoding (Applied bionics and biomechanics · 2026
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  16. Predicting Motor Intent from Residual Neck Muscle Activity in Individuals with Neck Weakness from ALS.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · 2025
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  19. A Task-Agnostic Approach to Unified Multi-Activity Gait Phase Estimation via Bilateral Sensing.IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings] · 2025
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1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

6 authors.

Aaron FlemingJoint Department of Biomedical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, United States of America.
Nicole StaffordDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States of America.
Stephanie HuangJoint Department of Biomedical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, United States of America.
Xiaogang HuJoint Department of Biomedical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, United States of America.
Daniel P FerrisJ. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-6373-6021
He Helen HuangJoint Department of Biomedical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-5581-1423

Funding

Training In Rehabilitation and Neuromuscular PlasticityT32HD043730 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI DAVID D FULLER · 2003 to 2026
$5.3M
Error Tolerance in Wearer-Robot SystemsR01EB024570 · NIBIB · NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH · PI HUANG, HE · 2018 to 2022
$1.8M
EMG propagation in planar muscles for prosthesis controlR01HD043137 · NICHD · REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO D/B/A SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITYLAB · PI KUIKEN, TODD ALAN · 2003 to 2007
$1.2M
Investigation of Transtibial Amputee Ability to Coordinate Residual Antagonistic Muscle Activations with Direct Electromyographic Control for the Enhancement of Postural ControlF31HD101285 · NICHD · NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH · PI FLEMING, AARON · 2019 to 2022
$97k
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB024570NICHD NIH HHS F31 HD101285NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD043137NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD043730
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AmputeesArtificial LimbsRobotic Surgical ProceduresElectromyographyHumansLocomotionMuscle, SkeletalEMGgait and balancehuman motor controlneural–machine interfacerobotic lower limb protheses

Identifiers

PMID34229307
PMCPMC8694273

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