Sentences with phrase «of electrical muscle»

Evidence was insufficient to determine the effectiveness of electrical muscle stimulation, interferential therapy, short - wave diathermy, traction, or superficial heat or cold.

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According to the New York Times, scientists discovered that when we sit all day, «electrical activity in the muscles drops... leading to a cascade of harmful metabolic effects,» and sadly even getting regular doses of exercise doesn't offset the damage.

Pedaling allows you to use some of the largest muscles in your body, your quadriceps, which stimulates muscular electrical activity and helps combat the many negative health effects of sitting all day without movement.

Those kinds of sharks like to be in the shallow surf, and actually can find prey by detecting the electrical charge emitted by their muscles.

The wearable technology company is the maker of the Myo armband, which detects the electrical activity of arm muscles and translates them into computer input, so users can control technology using gestures.

The Myo armband is the first input device in the world to use the electrical activity of muscles to control technology.

El Guerrouj is alive with a kind of music when he runs, as if his contracting muscles were firing electrical impulses to his brain.

I mean, I don't know about you, but I'd rather die relatively quickly (~ 2h, max, for the majority of fatal bullet wounds) or lose a limb than die because I'm coughing so hard my lungs shred themselves (mustard gas) or because my muscles, constantly triggered by uncontrollable electrical impulses, use up all the oxygen before my brain can (VX).

This amazing armband reads the electrical activity of your muscles and the motion of your arm to let you wirelessly control technology with hand gestures.

Contracting muscles of the heart, diaphragm and limbs; ion pumps that maintain the electrical properties of nerves; and biochemical reactions that break down food and synthesize new tissues (to name a few) generate body heat continuously.

Stimulating weakened muscles with a pattern of electrical signals produced by healthy muscles may encourage them to regenerate and dramatically improve their function.

«We also study how to control living muscle tissue by electrical stimulation of the cell,» he says.

The disability score ranged from 0 (no disability) to 88 (severely disabled) and incorporated measurements of sensation, muscle power, tendon reflexes and electrical activity in the leg nerves.

In experiments, so - called fast - twitch muscles and slow - twitch muscles assumed each other's characteristics when stimulated with electrical signals characteristic of the other type.

According to Oldham, such a uniform signal carries enough information to make muscles act mechanically but lacks an important part of the electrical message muscles require to operate normally.

In the study, the researchers show that after two to four weeks of 3 - D culture, the resulting muscle cells form muscle fibers that contract and react to external stimuli such as electrical pulses and biochemical signals mimicking neuronal inputs just like native muscle tissue.

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Furness's surgical technique, tested successfully in rats, rabbits, and dogs, involves removing muscle tissue from various parts of the body to create a replacement urinary sphincter, then implanting the sphincter along with a small electrical stimulator similar to a pacemaker.

Although the electrical activity of muscles, he explained, is normally considered as artifact noise that needs to be filtered out to attain clean EEG signals that are of interest, they are still informative about how facial muscles move, such as during a wink.

They trace the development of the face in embryos, scan brains, read the electrical activity of muscles, and record grins and pouts on high - speed video.

Several groups of fish have evolved the capacity to generate electrical pulses from specialised «electric organs», derived from either muscle tissue or nerve tissue.

Furthermore, the scientists proved the device's mechanical durability through repeated bending and stretching, exceeding 10,000 times, of a conductor attached on the forefinger; they also established its reliability as an electrode for electromyogram recordings when its readings of the electrical activity of muscles were comparable to those obtained through conventional gel electrodes.

By testing cycling time to task failure (TTF) in a group of 12 active participants in a placebo controlled study, Dr Mauger discovered that stimulating the brain by passing a mild electrical current (transcranial direct current stimulation or tDCS) over the scalp to stimulate it increased the activity of the area associated with muscle contraction.

For the past several years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign have been developing a class of walking «bio-bots» powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical and optical pulses.

Unfortunately, electrical stimulators are little effective in restoring larynx function, «because there are different muscles with opposite function close together,» explains Dr. Tobias van Bremen, an ear, nose and throat doctor and one of the co-authors of the study.

Duchenne de Boulogne found that he could artificially induce recognizable facial expressions by sending electrical currents to different groups of muscles in the face.

The findings relate to a type of cell connection that allows electrical and chemical messages to flow from nerve to muscle cells, enabling motion.

We found a strong consistency in how people move their facial muscles to express 21 categories of emotions,» said Aleix Martinez, a cognitive scientist and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State.

Four people with paraplegia are able to voluntarily move previously paralyzed muscles as a result of a novel therapy that involves electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, according to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

Unlike heart attacks (myocardial infarctions), which are typically caused by clogged coronary arteries reducing blood flow to the heart muscle, sudden cardiac arrest is the result of defective electrical activity of the heart.

Shenoy's lab pioneered the algorithms used to decode the complex volleys of electrical signals fired by nerve cells in the motor cortex, the brain's command center for movement, and convert them in real time into actions ordinarily executed by spinal cord and muscles.

Now, in this follow - up study, Claudia Angeli, Ph.D., assistant professor at the University of Louisville's Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center and her research colleagues report that three additional patients with paralysis have recovered voluntary muscle control following electrical stimulation of the spine.

Just three to five minutes spent looking at views dominated by trees, flowers or water can begin to reduce anger, anxiety and pain and to induce relaxation, according to various studies of healthy people that measured physiological changes in blood pressure, muscle tension, or heart and brain electrical activity.

In studying the functional behavior of the brain, from control of muscles to the formation of memories, scientists are using such tools such as electron microscopy, recordings of electrical signals from individual brain cells, and imaging of brain structures and processes using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and high - resolution optical imaging.

First they practised activating the muscle using an armband of sensors that picked up on the electrical activity.

For the study, the researchers used an electrical neurostimulator to induce muscle cramps in the feet of 37 healthy people.

The implant eavesdropped on his brain activity and, together with sensors taped to the shoulder and above the eyebrow reading the electrical activity of muscle contractions, allowed him to slowly spell out words with the power of thought.

«We thought that the electrical mechanical properties of the PVC gel could be used for robotic artificial muscles, so we started researching the PVC gel,» said Hashimoto.

The reason women find it harder to breathe than men during exercise is due to greater electrical activation of their breathing muscles, shows a new study published in Experimental Physiology

«It could be due to abnormal electrical signal conduction throughout the heart (such as arrhythmia), or weakened contraction force of heart muscles (like cardiomyopathy), or both.

Dublin — 9th March, 2018 — Researchers from AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland - funded materials science institute have developed a new biomaterial which is capable of both regenerating tissues which respond to electrical stimuli (such as the nerves, spinal cord, heart, brain and muscles) as well as eliminating infection — an ever - growing problem in hospitals.

North Carolina State University [US] researchers have developed methods for electronically manipulating the flight muscles of moths and for monitoring the electrical signals moths use to control those muscles.

For example, the Center brings in a device that uses electrical activity from a muscle to control a robotic gripper, which demonstrates the concept of a brain - machine interface.

According to the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a cardiac arrhythmia is essentially an electrical disruption to the normal workings of the heart, in which the heart muscle beats excessively fast, too slow or irregularly.

«While moderate amounts of alcohol appear protective for the «plumbing,» or blood supply to the heart muscle, the benefits of alcohol do not extend to the electrical parts of the heart, or heartbeat,» he said.

Similar, yet distinct movements can cause your nervous system to send a different set of electrical signals to your muscles, which will stimulate different contraction patterns in your muscle fibers.

Contracted muscles, which can be a source of pain, calm down A machine picks up electrical signals in the muscles.

As for the Electrical Muscle Stimulation device, I can't speak to that... I have never heard of its effect specifically on women with DR.. It's something that you should talk with your doc about and look into the research.

The electrical activity in the legs — the way of measuring muscle response — goes to zero, which is why it feels so weird and achy when you eventually do stand up.»

Physiotherapy treatment for TMJ Disorders includes postural examination and correction, and may include a combination of manual therapy to the chewing / biting muscles and those in the neck and covering the head, mobilization of the facial bones, jaw and neck, acupuncture as tolerated, electrical stimulation, and therapeutic exercises.