Applications Revisited

Is it useful?

• Muscle characterisation.
  • Work under way.
  • Using rat leg muscles with split peripheral nerve.
• Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation.
  • Good possibilities.
  • Only a crude measure of tension is needed, as only the amplitude of the fundamental component is used, and that is being reduced to zero, so scaling factor is not crucial.
    • Stretch of tendon may be adequate.
  • Multiple inputs can be surface or implanted electrodes.
    • Each electrode only activates part of the muscle, reducing stimulus strength needed.

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