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Functional Electrical Stimulation

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Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) consists on applying electrical pulses to peripheral motor nerve fibers in order to generate muscle contractions. If these muscle contractions are generated in a coordinated manner aiming at achieving a specific function, it is called Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES). Although FES also includes sensory functions, in this chapter only basics of FES applied to muscles will be described, since sensory FES does not concern to the thesis topic. Thus, the basic functioning principles are the same for NMES and FES in this case.

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Imatz Ojanguren, E. (2019). Functional Electrical Stimulation. In: Neuro-fuzzy Modeling of Multi-field Surface Neuroprostheses for Hand Grasping. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02735-3_3

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