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Springer (part of Springer Nature), Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 4(43), p. 990-1002

DOI: 10.1007/s10439-014-1150-1

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Characterization of Stroke- and Aging-Related Changes in the Complexity of EMG Signals During Tracking Tasks

Journal article published in 2014 by Di Ao, Rui Sun, Kai-Yu Tong ORCID, Rong Song
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Abstract

To explore the stroke- and aging-induced neurological changes in paretic muscles from an entropy point of view, fuzzy approximate entropy (fApEn) was utilized to represent the complexity of EMG signals in elbow-tracking tasks. In the experiment, 11 patients after stroke and 20 healthy control subjects (10 young and 10 age-matched adults) were recruited and asked to perform elbow sinusoidal trajectory tracking tasks. During the tests, the elbow angle and electromyographic (EMG) signals of the biceps brachii and triceps brachii were recorded simultaneously. The results showed significant differences in fApEn values of both biceps and triceps EMG among four groups at six velocities (p