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Comparative analysis of electromyographic pattern in the forearm muscles of hemiplegic patients
Date
2008-11-01Registration in:
Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology, v. 48, n. 8, p. 367-372, 2008.
0301-150X
2-s2.0-57049133039
7607651111619269
5919252907988514
0000-0001-8001-301X
Author
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
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Abstract
It was purposed the use of electromyography (EMG) to evaluate the activation of the agonists and antagonists muscles of spastic patients, to test the viability in the development of an instrument that given quantitative data of the patient spasticity. 30 hemiplegic and 15 normal volunteers had been submitted to the EMG of flexor and extensor carpi ulnaris muscles during the flexion and extension movements of the wrist. The individuals with less severe spasticity (mAS (modified Ashworth Scale) ringing 0 to 3 degree), had presented deficit in the activation of the flexor muscles in plegic side in relation to the non plegic side and that the individuals seriously compromised by the spasticity (mAS = 4 degree) present deficit of reciprocal inhibition. One evidenced is that the non plegic member does not present a similar neuro-motor comportment when compared to the normal member. The surface electromyography is a practical clinical instrument to evaluate the patient with spasticity and the hemiplegic patient needs to be evaluated on both sides (deficient and no deficient) because the no compromised side do not show a normality standard.
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