Sustained Fatigue Assessment During Isometric Exercises with Time-domain Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Surface Electromyography Signals

Overview

Journal Biomed Opt Express

Specialty Radiology

Date 2021 Jan 7

PMID 33409002

Citations 12

Authors

A Scano

I Pirovano

M E Manunza

L Spinelli

D Contini

A Torricelli

R Re

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Abstract

The effect of sustained fatigue during an upper limb isometric exercise is presented to investigate a group of healthy subjects with simultaneous time-domain (TD) NIRS and surface electromyography (sEMG) recordings on the deltoid lateralis muscle. The aim of the work was to understand which TD-NIRS parameters can be used as descriptors for sustained muscular fatigue, focusing on the slow phase of this process and using median frequency (MF) computed from sEMG as gold standard measure. It was found that oxygen saturation and deoxy-hemoglobin are slightly better descriptors of sustained fatigue, than oxy-hemoglobin, since they showed a higher correlation with MF, while total-hemoglobin correlation with MF was lower.

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