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Significance of Bracing Accessories for Improved Workability: An EMG Assessment

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Textile printing workers, mostly from the rural background, are ignorant about the ergonomic accessories for their regular activities. Ill effects of the same are less popular among these workers. Intervention for one of the prevalent disorders faced by them was predicted. Study was framed to find the effects of intervention in comparison to the conventional conditions. EMG (electromyogram) activities were recorded for the gastrocnemius and vastus lateralis muscles associated with lower limb and knee. They were processed using Matlab R2012a and tested for the effects using SPSS v20. Mean RMS plots showed that the muscle activities diminished with the introduction of intervention.

Knee braces were found effective in controlling the knee movements and were found to reduce the flexion by about 31% (approx.). Also, the effects assessed using SPSS gave positive outcome for significance. Thus, the intervention to minimize the discomfort during printing activity was implemented, and it (shod and knee braced conditions) was found to make positive impact on the muscle activities of lower limb.

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  1. Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India

    S. Shankar, J. Karthick & R. Nithyaprakash

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India

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Shankar, S., Karthick, J., NaveenKumar, R., Nithyaprakash, R. (2022). Significance of Bracing Accessories for Improved Workability: An EMG Assessment. In: Hussain, C.M., Di Sia, P. (eds) Handbook of Smart Materials, Technologies, and Devices. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84205-5_159

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