期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING
卷 29, 期 -, 页码 389-396出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2021.3052853
关键词
Torque; Muscles; Iron; Electrodes; Radio frequency; Knee; Neuromuscular; Electrical stimulation; knee; motor point; torque; quadriceps
资金
- Spinal Cord Injury Ontario Post-Doctoral Fellowship
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship [0040678]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [PJT148851]
This study systematically investigated the contribution of individual motor points of the quadriceps femoris muscle to knee joint torque during paired electrical stimuli. The results showed significant differences in torque contributions among the motor points, demonstrating the potential for selective activation of muscle groups using NMES. These findings provide valuable information for designing rehabilitation protocols utilizing NMES on the quadriceps femoris muscles.
Transcutaneous neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) can be used to activate the quadriceps femoris muscle to produce knee extension torque via seven distinct motor points, defined as the most sensitive locations on the muscle belly to electrical stimuli. However, it remains unclear how much individual motor points of the quadriceps femoris muscle contribute to the knee joint torque. Here we systematically investigated the contribution of each motor point of the quadriceps femoris muscle to the knee joint torque produced by paired electrical stimuli. Ten able-bodied individuals participated in this study. Paired electrical stimuli was applied by delivering electrical impulses on the motor points in all combinations among seven motor points (i.e., totaling to 127 combinations) at two different stimulation intensities (i.e., 25% and 50% of the maximum) while recording isometric knee joint torque. The contribution of individual motor points was estimated using statistical analyses. We found that a linear addition of twitch torques induced by single motor point stimulus overestimated the twitch torques induced by multiple motor point stimulations, suggesting overlaps in muscle fibres activated by each motor point. Using multiple linear regressions, we identified the average contribution of each motor point to the knee extension torque during paired electrical stimuli and found significant differences between these torque contributions. We demonstrated that seven distinct motor points can be activated for the quadriceps muscle group using paired electrical stimuli and identified the contribution of each motor point to knee extension torque during twitch muscle contraction; these findings provide useful information to design rehabilitation using NMES on quadriceps femoris muscles.
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