18Feb 2017

COMPARISON OF sEMG SIGNAL OF CTS SUFFERERS AND NON CTS SUFFERERS

  • Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati,Guwahati, India.
  • Department of ME, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology, Sangrur, Punjab, India.
  • Department of ME, Faculty of Engineering & Technology Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
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Repetitive strain injuries (RSI) are the nation’s most common and costly occupational health problem, affecting hundreds of thousands of American workers, and costing more than $20 billion a year in workers compensation. The common musculoskeletal disorders are associated with Abductor Pollicis Brevis (APB), often included in the list of the Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI), affecting as much as 5% of adult population. But in the majority of cases, the condition is idiopathic. In this paper, the health surveillance has been conducted on 66 Non-CTS Sufferers and 37 CTS Sufferers connecting rod manufacturing works. A study of the signals of the Abductor Pollicis Brevis (APB), muscle with different conditions such as rest position and different movements of hand has been carried out using surface-electromyography (sEMG).Experiments were performed on BIOPAC MP-45 instrument and independent two samplet-test outputs from SPSS analysis using sEMG signals obtained were analyzed for severity of the problem. So, Results reveal that non-CTS sufferers worker have better sEMG signal than CTS sufferers worker and are less prone to carpal tunnel syndrome.

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[Sarfaraz Alam, Urmi Ravindra Salve, Naresh Kumar, Zulquernain Mallick and Manoj Kumar. (2017); COMPARISON OF sEMG SIGNAL OF CTS SUFFERERS AND NON CTS SUFFERERS Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Feb). 594-599] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Md. Sarfaraz Alam
Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati,Guwahati (India)

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3190      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3190

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