Portable electromyography and electrical goniometer systems for measuring muscle activiations and movements in the field

这笔赠款旨在资助购买两台便携式设备，使我们的研究团队能够在现场测量工人在执行日常工作任务时的肌肉活动和运动。感兴趣的职业包括护理人员、手语翻译和日托工作者等辅助职业。受雇于这些受人尊敬的职业的工人为加拿大人提供了宝贵的服务；然而，在这样做的过程中，许多人患上肌肉骨骼疾病的比率超过了平均人口。这种设备是必不可少的，让我们能够更准确地测量工人在执行各自的工作任务时如何激活肌肉和移动身体。这些信息对于了解他们可能会受到伤害的原因至关重要，有助于我们设计预防或减少伤害发生的策略。传统上，视频记录一直被用来记录身体运动，但视频不能很好地捕捉三维运动，限制了我们准确了解工人真正移动的能力。此外，视频没有提供肌肉是如何使用的信息，尽管这些帮助职业中的许多工伤与肌肉拉伤和过度使用有关。随着这种设备的增加，我们的研究团队将能够收集更详细的信息，以提高我们对这些帮助性职业中如何发生伤害的理解。虽然预防与工作有关的肌肉骨骼疾病传统上是一个缓慢而艰苦的过程，但最近的便携式技术(如这里所要求的)将使我们能够在这些工作环境中直接衡量职业表现。随着对这些职业可能发生的伤害有了更全面的了解，我们可以制定有针对性的解决方案，帮助他们显著降低伤害率。更健康、无伤害的口译员、护理人员和日托工作人员可以为加拿大人提供更好的服务，以确保我们始终能够获得包容的沟通、高效的紧急医疗护理和安全的儿童日托。

This grant aims to fund the purchase of two portable devices to allow our research teams to measure muscle activity and movement of workers in the field while they perform their normal daily work tasks. Occupations of interest included the helping professions of paramedics, sign language interpreters and daycare workers. Workers employed in each of these respected professions provide valuable services to Canadians; however, in doing so many develop musculoskeletal disorders at rates exceeding the average population. This equipment is essential to allow us to more accurately measure how workers activate their muscles and move their bodies while performing their respective work tasks. This information is vital to understand why they may be developing injuries, helping us to design strategies to prevent or reduce their occurrence. Traditionally, video recordings have been used to document body movements, but video does not capture three-dimensional motion very well, limiting our ability to accurately understand how workers are truly moving. Additionally, video provides no information about how muscles are being used, although many work-related injuries in these helping professions are related to muscle strains and overuse. With the addition of this equipment our research teams will be able to gather more detailed information to improve our understanding of how injuries arise in these helping occupations. While the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders has traditionally been a slow and gruelling process, recent portable technologies (as requested here) will allow us to measure occupational performance directly in these work environments. With a more complete understanding of how injuries may arise in these occupations, we can develop targeted solutions to help them reduce injury rates considerably. Healthier, injury-free interpreters, paramedics and daycare workers can provide much better service to Canadians to ensure we can always access inclusive communication, efficient emergency medical care and safe child daycare.