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ENEBI 2018
6º Encontro Nacional de Engenharia Biomecânica
CLASSIFICATION AND SORTING OF PREFIXED CHANNELS FOR FUNCTIONAL ELETROESTIMULATION AND VERIFICATION PROTOCOL
Submission Author:
Raphael Loyola , DF
Co-Authors:
Raphael Loyola, Pedro Perruci, Fernanda Amaral Melo
Presenter: Raphael Loyola
doi://10.26678/ABCM.ENEBI2018.EEB18-0203
Abstract
A current challenge of functional electrostimulation (FES) using surface electrodes is finding the best position of the electrodes. This work proposes the use of an adjustable structure consisting of several surface electrodes which cover the entire area of interest, providing an easy and fast positioning of the electrodes. A new protocol for channel selection is also described in order to increase maximum repetitions for knee extension exercises after a short setup period. In order to validate the proposed setup, a comparison is made between a 3 channel selection according to this protocol and a single channel placed according to the standard trial and error placement method for knee extension. As a result, the proposed approach performed a substantially greater amount of repetitions of the exercise. Its expected that the proposed method may be a tool to improve exercises performance on FES rehabilitation.
Keywords
FES, Neurorehabilitation, Channel Selection
