spinal cord injury

Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound Neuromodulation of a Rodent’s Spinal Cord Suppresses Motor Evoked Potentials

Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound Neuromodulation of a Rodent’s Spinal Cord Suppresses Motor Evoked Potentials

Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound Neuromodulation of a Rodent’s Spinal Cord Suppresses Motor Evoked Potentials 789 444 IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME)
Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound applied to the spinal cord can transiently modulate the transmission of motor signals in a rat model. read more

Intramuscular EMG-driven Musculoskeletal Modelling: Towards Implanted Muscle Interfacing in Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Author(s)3: Moon Ki Jung, Silvia Muceli, Camila Rodrigues, Álvaro Megía-García, Alejandro Pascual-Valdunciel, Antonio J. del-Ama, Angel Gil-Agudo, Juan C. Moreno, Filipe Oliveira Barroso, José L. Pons, Dario Farina
Intramuscular EMG-driven Musculoskeletal Modelling: Towards Implanted Muscle Interfacing in Spinal Cord Injury Patients 605 605 IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME)
EMG-driven neuromusculoskeletal (NMS) modelling approaches have been developed to estimate user-intended joint moments. This study proposes intramuscular EMG-driven NMS modelling as a control method applied to recordings from muscle implants with the long-term goal of applications in assistive exoskeletons for spinal cord injury (SCI) patients. We recorded intramuscular EMG (iEMG) and provided joint torque predictions based on the NMS model. The approach was applied to healthy individuals as well as incomplete SCI patients. The results showed high correlation between experimental and predicted joint torques as well as comparable performance when using non-invasive and implanted EMG systems. read more