EMG Signal Analysis for Improved Leg Prosthesis Control

Objective

With this research we intend to:

1. investigate the information content embedded in the muscle activity from normal innervated muscles in able-body subjects or from residual muscles in amputated patients,
2. develop an algorithm that accurately deciphers neural commands from EMG, and
3. design the prosthetic control strategy with robustness and a large safety margin.

IRB Protocol Number

STU00000373

Principal Investigator(s)

Todd Kuiken

Clinical Trial Categories

• Prosthetics/Orthotics Research
• Amputee Research
• Stroke Research

Sponsor(s)

Globe Foundation

How to Participate

• Able-bodied people and leg amputees between the ages of 18 and 60 will complete these experiments.
• The subjects must not have cognitive deficits or visual impairment that would impair their ability to give informed consent or impair their ability to follow simple instructions during the experiments. 
• The subjects cannot have any significant co-morbidity that interferes with the study (e.g. stroke, pace maker placement, etc.). 
• Subjects cannot be on an anticoagulant, such as coumadin.