MusCare+: Muscle Monitoring for Anomalies

Abstract

- Muscles are an essential part of everyday life and any damage or illness that affects them can cause massive problems. Patients who are diagnosed with muscle injuries and illnesses largely remain unmonitored, even though a few appointments they have with doctors annually. Moving from unmonitored to constant monitoring can not only paint a better picture of how a muscle condition is progressing, but it also can inform medical professionals if their treatment regimen is actually working. In this paper, we propose a new system that can monitor muscle health of a patient and predict the muscle conditions. This system mainly focuses on the shoulder but could be expanded to other areas of the body. By utilizing the strength of machine learning and the Android platform, we created a platform that can monitor muscle health quickly and easily. The current prototype system is not only able to display live data gathered from an EMG sensor, but it can also predict whether the muscle is currently flexed or relaxed. Although there is a limitation in current prototype system, a more robust machine learning algorithm could be trained to give a wide array of muscle health predictions.