Patent ID: 9078585
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A muscle synergy analysis method, comprising: detecting in a time-divisional manner, at each one muscle of an antagonistic muscle pair group of a first human using a first electrode attached to a skin surface overlying said one muscle, a first myoelectric signal generated at said one muscle during a predetermined motion; storing said myolelectric signal into a RAM as reference data; detecting in said time-divisional manner, at each one muscle of an antagonistic muscle pair group of a compared human using a second electrode attached to a skin surface overlying said one muscle of said compared human, a second myoelectric signal generated at said one muscle of said compared human during a comparison predetermined motion, wherein the compared human is one of either a same person or a different person than the first human; storing said second myolelectric signal into said RAM as comparison data; evaluating by a microcomputer a difference in an antagonistic muscle ratio between a principal component of a first antagonistic muscle ratio calculated from said reference data and a principal component of a second antagonistic muscle ratio calculated from said comparison data; and displaying said evaluated, antagonistic muscle ratio difference at a display monitor; and wherein said evaluating comprises: