Evaluation of sEMG on contralateral upper limb physiological characteristic evaluation methodology

Abstract

Quantitative evaluation for estimating motor function is a prerequisite for clinical application of rehabilitation robot. The current clinical evaluations, such as Fugl-Meyer assessment, still have some deficiency. The study provided an innovative evaluation method, which contrasted the physiological character of impaired limb with the contralateral upper limb of post stroke hemiplegic patients, and investigate the comparability of surface Electromyography (sEMG) between patients and healthy persons during robot-assisted motor recovery training possess similar track and equivalent velocity. There is much comparability of sEMG characteristic in healthy limb of patients compare with healthy person, yet less comparability exist in the impaired limb. The results in the study imply that the method depend on contralateral limb sEMG characteristic have potential capacity in clinical quantitative evaluation of rehabilitation and may competent to associate with other physiological character.