Electromyography (EMG) System

Telemyo

Noraxon, Inc.

Telemetered (wireless) surface EMG system

  Operated with laptop computer

  Totally portable  

	8 channels
	Synchronized with motion system & force plates
	MyoResearch software

  Monitor and record muscle activity

  Graphical representations

Practical Uses:

  Recording muscle amplitude and recruitment

  Biofeedback

  Gait analysis

  Dynamometer/Isokinetic forces

Select studies conducted in the lab by SRU students and faculty using the EMG system

1. EMG Analysis of Scapular Stabilizing Muscles During Selected Open and Closed Kinetic Chain Exercises by Lori Clawson, Brian Orowitz, Traci Richardson.  American Physical Therapy Association Annual Meeting 2003, platform presentation.  Pennsylvania Physical Therapy Association Annual Meeting 2002, poster presentation.

2. AN ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC COMPARISON OF ABDOMINAL MUSCLE ACTIVITY OF THREE ISOMETRIC EXERCISES TARGETING THE EXTERNAL OBLIQUE AND INTERAL OBLIQUE/TRANSVERSE ABDOMINIS MUSCLES IN ASYMPTOMATIC ADULTS by Brace Hayden, DPT, Crystal Nyberg, DPT,  Karma Sage, DPT,   Mary Ann Holbein-Jenny, Ph.D., DPT

3. THE EFFECTS OF A PERTURBATION TRAINING PROGRAM ON NEUROMUSCULAR ACTIVATION PATTERNS IN FEMALE ATHLETES by T. Phinney, E.Sorensen, A. Stinson.  American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting 2001, poster.

4. An EMG comparison of gravity-dependent and gravity-elimated manual muscle testing positions for the shoulder by S Kline, J Pawley, J Shultz, MA Holbein-Jenny, C Martin-Elkins. (ongoing)