By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Medical Imaging Week -- Investigators discuss new findings in Health and Medicine. According to news originating from Saltillo, Mexico, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Hand strength weakness affects the performance of most activities of daily living. This study aims to design, develop, and test an electromyography (EMG) biofeedback training system based on serious games to promote motivation and synchronization and proper work intensity in grip exercises for improving hand strength.”
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research, “An EMG surface sensor, soft balls with different stiffness and three exergames, conforms the system to drive videogame clues in response to EMG-inferred grip strength, while overseeing motivation. An experiment was designed to study the effect of performing handgrip (HG) exercises with the proposed system versus traditional exercises. organized into two groups, followed a training program for each hand. One group followed a HG exergame training (ET) with the dominant hand and traditional HG training with the nondominant hand and inverse sequence by the second group. Initial and final grip forces were measured using a digital dynamometer. Questionnaires evaluated motivation and user experience, and exercise performance was evaluated in terms of work and rest time percentage and maximal voluntary contraction percentage over contraction periods. Data were analyzed for statistically significant differences and increase of means. Participants showed significantly better exercise performance and higher grip forces, with sustained intrinsic motivation and user experience, with the ET. Improvement in force level arises evidently from the synchronized work-rest time pattern and appropriated intensity of the muscle activity.”
According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This leads to support that EMG biofeedback exergames improve motor neurons firing and resting.”
For more information on this research see: Electromyography Biofeedback Exergames to Enhance Grip Strength and Motivation. Games for Health Journal , 2017;():. (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. - www.liebertpub.com; Games for Health Journal - http://www.liebertpub.com/overview/games-for-health-journal/588/)
The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from N. Garcia-Hernandez, 1 Dept. of Advanced Robotics and Manufacturing, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the IPN (CINVESTAV-IPN) , Saltillo, Mexico. Additional authors for this research include K. Garza-Martinez and V. Parra-Vega.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1089/g4h.2017.0054. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2017-12-30), Findings in Health and Medicine Reported from N. Garcia-Hernandez and Co-Researchers (Electromyography Biofeedback Exergames to Enhance Grip Strength and Motivation), Medical Imaging Week, 12, ISSN: 1552-9363, BUTTER® ID: 014888327
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