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US 10,945,629 B2Granted
Muscle activity monitoring
AssigneeRepono Pty Ltd
InventorNicholas Dodemont
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Abstract
A system for monitoring muscle activity of a biological subject, the system including at least one garment including a number of arrays of electrodes positioned on the garment so that when the garment is worn by a subject in use, the electrodes contact skin of the subject and generate electrical signals indicative of electrical potentials within respective muscles of the subject and at least one electronic processing device that processes signals from the electrodes in each electrode array to determine a muscle activation for parts of the respective muscles and uses the muscle activation to determine at least one muscle indicator indicative of muscle activity of the subject.
Claims19
A system for monitoring muscle activity of a biological subject, the system including:
- a) a garment for use in monitoring muscle activity of a biological subject, the garment including a number of arrays of electrodes positioned on the garment so that when the garment is worn by the subject in use, the electrodes are configured to contact skin of the subject and generate electrical signals indicative of electrical potentials within respective muscles of the subject, each array of electrodes including a plurality of electrodes arranged in a grid:
- b) at least one electronic processing device that:
- i) processes signals from the electrodes in each electrode array to determine a muscle activation for parts of the respective muscles;
- ii) uses the muscle activation to determine at least one muscle indicator indicative of muscle activity of the subject;
- iii) generates a representation at least partially based on the at least one muscle indicator;
- iv) causes the representation to be displayed to a user, wherein the representation includes at least one of:
- (1) an alphanumeric indication of the at least one muscle indicator;
- (2) a graphical representation of a muscle activation pattern for at least one muscle;
- and,
- (3) a graphical representation of results of a comparison of a muscle activation pattern to a reference muscle activation pattern;
- and,
- v) cause the representation to display to the user,
- characterized in that the at least one electronic processing device determines one or more muscle indicators by comparing muscle activation patterns to reference activation patterns, and wherein the reference activation patterns represent an idealised activation pattern for the subject when performing a given activity;
- c) the reference activation patterns are determined based on a study of individuals in a sample population when the individuals are performing the same given activity as the subject, and wherein the individuals are assessed as healthy individuals;
- d) the muscle activation patterns are compared to the reference activation patterns using pattern recognition;
- and,
- e) the muscle activation is indicative of at least one of a magnitude and frequency of muscle activation and the muscle indicator includes:
- i) an intramuscular indicator indicative of muscle activation within the respective muscle;
- and,
- ii) an intermuscular indicator indicative of a relative muscle activation of contralateral muscles on contralateral limbs.
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A method for monitoring muscle activity of a biological subject, the method including:
- a) providing the subject with at least one garment including a number of arrays of electrodes positioned on the garment so that when the garment is worn by the subject, the electrodes are configured to contact skin of the subject and generate electrical signals indicative of electrical potentials within respective muscles of the subject;
- b) in at least one electronic processing device:
- i) processing signals from the electrodes in each electrode array to determine a muscle activation for parts of the respective muscles;
- ii) using the muscle activation to determine at least one muscle indicator indicative of muscle activity of the subject;
- iii) generating a representation at least partially based on the at least one muscle indicator:
- iv) causing the representation to be displayed to a user, wherein the representation includes at least one of:
- (1) an alphanumeric indication of the at least muscle indicator;
- (2) a graphical representation of a muscle activation pattern for at least one muscle;
- and,
- (3) a graphical representation of results of a comparison of a muscle activation pattern to a reference muscle activation pattern:
- v) causing the representation to be displayed to the user, characterised in that the at least one electronic processing device determines one or more muscle indicators by comparing muscle activation patterns to reference activation patterns, and wherein the reference activation patterns represent an idealised activation pattern for the subject when performing a given activity:
- c) determining reference activation patterns based on a study of individuals in a sample population when the individuals are performing the same given activity as the subject, and wherein the individuals are assessed as healthy individuals;
- d) comparing the muscle activation patterns to the reference activation patterns using pattern recognition:
- and,
- e) the muscle activation is indicative of at least one of a magnitude and frequency of muscle activation and the muscle indicator includes;
- i) an intramuscular indicator indicative of muscle activation within the respective muscle;
- and,
- ii) an intermuscular indicator indicative of a relative muscle activation of contralateral muscles on contralateral limbs.
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