Title:The Effects by Therapeutic Electrical Stimulation on Muscles of People with Spinal Cord Injuries - An Analysis on The Integral Value of Electromyogram on Muscles -
Author:Fumihiko Nakanishi, Yasuhiko Kira, Shunzo Aramaki, Hiroshi Yamada,(Kyoto Prefectual Rehabilitation Hospital for the mentally & physically disabled, Jyoyo Kyoto)
Proceedings of 12th Japanese Conference of Advancement of Rehabilitation Technology, Vol.12, pp.447-448
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Fumihiko Nakanishi (Kyoto Prefectual Rehabilitation Hospital for the mentally & physically disabled, Jyoyo Kyoto)
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Abstract:
In this paper, the effects by therapeutic electrical stimulation on muscles of people with spinal cord injuries are reported. The authors give therapeutic electrical stimulation (TES) to two persons with spinal cord injuries. And they measure continuously the integral values of the electromyogram on their muscles, such as, deltoids muscles and pectoral muscles. The electrical stimuli are rectangular waves whose maximum amplitude is fifteen volts and frequency is twenty hertz. One week after the electrodes buried, the electrical stimulation started. And the stimulation time and numbers have been increasing day by day. As a result, twelve or sixteen weeks after the electrical stimulation started, the integral values of the electromyogram on both their deltoids and pectoral muscles increase obviously. Moreover, six weeks after that, both the result of manual muscle test and the range of motion are better than before stimulation. The authors conclude that therapeutic electrical stimulation gives good effects on the recovery of the muscles of people with spinal cord injuries.