Paper Info
Title
An indirect method to estimate the force output of triceps surae muscle.
Abstract
Estimation of force output generated by human muscle is an essential routine of clinical rehabilitation assessment, and could provide considerable insight into rehabilitation, motor control and robotics. Indirect methods for the estimation of force output could be helpful when a bulky and expensive dynamometer is not on hand. Electromyography has been used in previous studies to quantify it in the literature. However, the force output is a summation of the motor unit action potentials, and thus the contributions and performances of superficial and deep-lying muscles could hardly be separated from each other. In this preliminary study, we applied ultrasonography (US) to explore the feasibility of estimating triceps surae force output during isometric plantar flexion with spatial resolution from superficial to deeper muscles. The local deformations of US images are extracted to represent the morphological changes during force generation. It was found US could be utilized to decently (coefficient of determination at 0.875 ± 0.051 and normalized root mean square error 0.160 ± 0.035) estimate the force output and the measured force by a dynamometer.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944954
EMBC
Keywords
Field
DocType
IN-VIVO,ULTRASOUND,ULTRASONOGRAPHY,FEASIBILITY,CONTRACTION,PATTERNS,TENDON,STRAIN
Indirect Method,Computer science,Triceps surae muscle,Physical therapy
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2014
1557-170X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jizhou Li1123.83
Yongjin Zhou2179.89
Yong-Ping Zheng311923.74