Mechanomyography energy decreases during muscular fatigue in paraplegics

The present work investigated the response of triaxial MMG signals acquired from the rectus femoris muscle of spinal cord injured volunteers during fatigue protocol electrically evoked. A custom functional electrical stimulator voltage-controlled was configured as: pulse frequency set to 1 kHz (20% duty cycle) and burst (modulating) frequency set to 70 Hz (20% active period). The triaxial MMG signal of rectus femoris muscle was processed with third-order 5-50 Hz bandpass Butterworth filter and the values were normalized. A load cell was used to register the force. The stimulator output voltage was increased until the maximal electrically-evoked extension (MEEE) of knee joint. After the load cell placement, the stimuli magnitude required to reach the MEEE was applied and registered by the load cell as muscular force-100% response. Stimuli intensity was increased until and during the control to keep the force in force-100%. Four instants with force functional electrical stimulation (FES)-controlled were selected between force-100% and slope down to force-30%. The MMG energy decreased with FES application due neuromuscular fatigue in paraplegic subjects. X-axis between instant I (1 ± 0) and instant IV (0.74 ±0.27), and the same tendency was found to Y-axis between instant II (1.14 ± 0.44) and instant IV (0.91 ± 0.3).

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