TY - GEN
T1 - Relationship between medial gastrocnemius muscle stiffness and the angle between the rearfoot and floor
AU - Uchiyama, Takanori
AU - Hamada, Eiki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - The present study examined the stiffness in the medial gastrocnemius muscle at various angles between the rearfoot and the floor. Six healthy young men participated in the study. A triangle support was attached to the force plate. Each participant placed their forefoot and rearfoot onto the force plate and the triangle support, respectively. Electrical stimulation was applied to the medial gastrocnemius muscle using Ag-AgCl surface electrodes. The center of pressure was measured with the force plate, and electrically-induced fluctuation of the center of pressure was extracted using a Kalman filter. Measurements were performed at 10°, 20°, and 30°angles of the triangle support. The transfer function from the stimulation to the fluctuation was identified, and the poles of the transfer function were used to estimate the medial gastrocnemius muscle and ankle stiffness. The muscle stiffness increased as the angle of the triangle support increased.
AB - The present study examined the stiffness in the medial gastrocnemius muscle at various angles between the rearfoot and the floor. Six healthy young men participated in the study. A triangle support was attached to the force plate. Each participant placed their forefoot and rearfoot onto the force plate and the triangle support, respectively. Electrical stimulation was applied to the medial gastrocnemius muscle using Ag-AgCl surface electrodes. The center of pressure was measured with the force plate, and electrically-induced fluctuation of the center of pressure was extracted using a Kalman filter. Measurements were performed at 10°, 20°, and 30°angles of the triangle support. The transfer function from the stimulation to the fluctuation was identified, and the poles of the transfer function were used to estimate the medial gastrocnemius muscle and ankle stiffness. The muscle stiffness increased as the angle of the triangle support increased.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856642
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856642
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 31947416
AN - SCOPUS:85077897285
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 6860
EP - 6863
BT - 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
Y2 - 23 July 2019 through 27 July 2019
ER -