DEVELOPMENT OF DYNAMIC UPPER EXTREMITY IMAGE CAPTURE MODEL

这项研究的目的是改善与办公室工作相关的累积创伤障碍患者的护理。这项研究将比较治疗累积性创伤障碍的医生已经使用的不同的医疗和物理治疗程序。这项研究将确定一些程序是否比其他程序更有效，以便向患者提出建议，以改善他们的护理。这个项目包括两个目标：1)通过定制的表面肌电成像，将外部成像的手-手臂运动与内在肌肉活动相关联，以及2)分析计算机键盘非患病工作人群中的手和手臂远端运动。第一个工作领域的主要假设是，肌肉负荷可以通过肌电表面信号充分量化，提供由数字成像捕获的观察到的外部运动特征的内在关联。第二个目标的主要假设是，对无症状人群的详细成像将显著修改基于临床共识和专家意见的正常手运动模型。

The purpose of this study is to improve care for patients with cumulative trauma disorders that are related to office work. The study will compare different medical and physical therapy procedures that are already used by doctors who treat cumulative trauma disorders. The study will determine if some procedures are more effective than others, so that recommendations can be made to patients to improve their care. Two aims are covered under this project: 1) correlation of extrinsically imaged hand-arm movement with intrinsic muscle activity through customized surface electromyography imaging, and 2) analysis of hand and distal arm motion in a non-diseased working population of computer keyboarders. The principal hypothesis for the first area of work is that muscle load can be sufficiently quantified through EMG surface signals, providing an intrinsic correlate of observed extrinsic movement characteristics, captured by digital imaging. The principal hypothesis for the second aim is that detailed imaging of an asymptomatic population will significantly modify models of normal hand movement that have been based on clinical consensus and expert opinion.