Evaluation of Lower-Limb Rehabilitation Based on Muscle Fatigue

The purpose of this study was to investigate the features of muscle fatigue extracted from surface electromyography (sEMG) signals of lower limbs, and then to present an evaluation method of lower-limb rehabilitation to provide physical basis for the training effect of rehabilitation. Four healthy young university students were invited to perform a pedaling exercise for 40 days. The sEMG signals of four lower-limb muscles are recorded and processed using a Butterworth filter and a Daubechies 10 wavelet. Then, the change of the ratios of the spectrums of Types I and II muscle fibers to the total number of the spectrum along the exercise are examined. The time of the first intersection of the ratios for Types I and II for each muscle is used as a performance index. The increase in the time at the beginning and the end of the training period indicates the improvement of motor function, and thus it verifies the effectiveness of the rehabilitation.