DEVELOPMENT OF DYNAMIC UPPER EXTREMITY IMAGE CAPTURE MODEL

本研究的目的是改善与办公室工作相关的累积性创伤疾病患者的护理。 该研究将比较治疗累积性创伤疾病的医生已经使用的不同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。该项目包括两个目标：1）通过定制的表面肌电图成像，外部成像的手臂运动与内在肌肉活动的相关性，以及2）在计算机键盘手的非患病工作人群中分析手和远端手臂运动。 第一个工作领域的主要假设是，肌肉负荷可以通过EMG表面信号充分量化，从而提供通过数字成像捕获的观察到的外在运动特征的内在相关性。 第二个目标的主要假设是，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部运动模型。

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.