Figure 2: Schema of EMG-triggered FES and EMG-controlled FES
In EMG-triggered FES ( ), EMG signal is picked up from muscle 2 and
electrical stimulation is applied for muscle1. Surface electrodes pick up
the EMG signal at the target muscles and simultaneously stimulate same
muscles in proportion to the picked-up integrated EMG signal by the same
surface electrodes in EMG-cntrolled FES ( ) with enabling more delicate
stimulation of muscles compared to EMG-triggered neuromuscular electrical
stimulation. Because EMG-cntrolled FES device steadily records voluntary
EMG only from the stimulated muscles, contraction of the wrong muscle can
be avoided. |