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1 Electrode Orientation and EMG Fatigue of the Vastus Lateralis 15 JEPonline Journal of Exercise Physiologyonline Official Journal of The American Society of Exercise Physiologists (ASEP) ISSN An International Electronic Journal Volume 2 Number 3 July 1999 Systems Physiology Neuromuscular and Skeletal INFLUENCE OF ELECTRODE ORIENTATION ON ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC FATIGUE INDICES OF THE VASTUS LATERALIS JOSEPH P. WEIR, KELLY P. MAHONEY, KATHERINE G. HAAN and AMANDA DAVIS Program in Physical Therapy, University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, 3200 Grand Avenue, Des Moines IA, ABSTRACT Influence of Electrode Orientation on Electromyographic Fatigue Indices of the Vastus Lateralis. JOSEPH P. WEIR, KELLY P. MAHONEY, KATHERINE G. HAAN and AMANDA DAVIS. JEPonline 1999, 2(3): Monitoring of muscle fatigue in the leg extensors can provide valuable information regarding exercise and rehabilitation. Surface electromyography (EMG) can provide objective measures for monitoring fatigue. However, factors such as electrode orientation relative to muscle fiber direction can potentially affect EMG fatigue indices. That is, bipolar electrodes should be aligned parallel to the muscle fibers, but in pennated muscles alignment of electrodes parallel to the muscle fibers is problematic. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of alterations in electrode orientation on EMG changes during fatiguing isometric contractions. Electrodes were placed parallel and perpendicular to the long axis of the vastus lateralis of thirty subjects who performed a quadriceps contraction for 60 seconds at 50% of their maximal isometric contraction. The data were analyzed for changes in median power frequency (MPF) and integrated EMG (iemg) over time. Slopes from individual regression analyses, normalized to the subjects maximal values, were the dependent variables (units = %max.sec -1 ). Paired t-tests indicated that the fatigue slopes for MPF (parallel = ± 0.13; perpendicular = ± 0.20 ; t = 1.75, p=.09) and iemg (parallel = 0.22 ± 0.17; perpendicular = 0.25 ± 0.19; t = 1.52, p=.14) were not significantly different between orientations. However, the correlation analysis for MPF slopes showed no significant relationship between parallel and perpendicular measures (r= 0.05, SEE = 0.29). In contrast, the correlation analysis for iemg slopes indicated a significant relationship between orientations (r=.77, SEE = 0.13, p<.05). These findings suggest that electrode orientation can significantly affect frequency domain indices of fatigue while amplitude measures are less sensitive to alterations in electrode orientation. In pennated muscles such as the vastus lateralis, use of amplitude measures of fatigue may be preferable. Key words: EMG, isometric contraction, skeletal muscle INTRODUCTION The leg extensors are critically important during activities of daily living (7), exercise, and rehabilitation protocols. Fatigue in these muscles can affect function, and monitoring of quadriceps fatigue can provide insight into the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions. While fatigue can be assessed by examining changes in force or torque production over time, these recordings may not be practical in all situations. Alternatively, electromyography (EMG) can be used to study local muscular fatigue and involves measuring changes that occur in the EMG signal in the time and/or

2 Electrode Orientation and EMG Fatigue of the Vastus Lateralis 16 frequency domain (4, 13). During fatigue from submaximal isometric contractions, EMG amplitude increases while markers of EMG frequency characteristics (e.g., median power frequency) trend towards lower values. The increase in EMG amplitude has been suggested to reflect fatigueinduced increases in motor unit recruitment and/or firing rate (4, 6, 15) while the decrease in median power frequency may reflect decreases in muscle fiber conduction velocity (5, 17), however the mechanisms underlying these effects are still under investigation. An advantage of EMG fatigue assessment is that these fatigue indices are unaffected by psychological factors associated with fatigue and allow for the detection of fatigueinduced changes in muscle electrical activity that occur prior to measured changes in force production (3). While EMG has a long history as a fatigue research tool, surprisingly little is known regarding the effect of electrode orientation on EMG fatigue responses (20). Loeb and Gans (14) suggest that surface electrodes should be orientated such that the pickup surfaces lie parallel to the muscle fibers as this will place the electrodes parallel to the line of action potential conduction. That is, optimal recording of muscle electrical activity will occur when the contact surfaces of bipolar electrodes are parallel to the direction of the voltage gradient of the tissue (14). However, in muscles like the quadriceps, the angle of pennation makes placement of electrodes relative to fiber orientation problematic. Some investigators have attempted to place the electrodes over quadriceps muscles in line with the presumed orientation of the fibers (9, 11), however the actual pennation angle is not readily measured, can vary considerably between subjects (12), and varies as a function of muscle force (8, 10) and joint angle (8,16). Alternatively, electrodes have simply been oriented in line with the long axis of the muscle belly (19) and in many cases the electrode orientation has not been reported (e.g., 1, 2). Therefore, assessment of fatigue in pennated muscles like the quadriceps based on surface EMG may be affected by differences in electrode orientation. In this investigation, we maximally altered electrode orientation (90 ) over the vastus lateralis during fatiguing isometric exercise and examined the effect of these changes on EMG amplitude and median power frequency fatigue indices. METHODS Subjects Eighteen female and 12 male volunteers participated in this investigation. The subjects were between the ages of 19 and 40 years (mean age ± SD = 25 ± 3.5 years; height = 173 ± 9.4 cm; mass = 67 ± 12.1 Kg) and each subject completed a health questionnaire and signed an informed consent form. All procedures were approved by the local Institutional Review Board. Experimental Procedures The testing protocol and signal processing (described below) were patterned after that described in a previous communication (19). Specifically, each subject performed a five minute warm-up consisting of unloaded stationary cycling at 50 rpm, followed by standing quadriceps stretching. Following the warm-up, each subject performed a series of isometric contractions of the right knee extensors on a KinCom isokinetic dynamometer at a joint angle.785 rad (45 ) from full extension. Prior to testing, the axis of rotation of the dynamometer was carefully aligned with the axis of rotation of the knee. The subjects were then stabilized at the hip and ankle and were instructed to firmly grasp towel handles located at the side of the dynamometer chair. Following positioning and stabilization, each subject performed three maximal isometric contractions. Each contraction was held for approximately five seconds, and contractions were separated by three minutes of rest. From each contraction, the one-second interval with the highest mean force was determined. The EMG signals from the corresponding time interval were isolated for analysis (see below). The highest force from the three maximal contractions was considered the maximal voluntary contraction (MVC). Five minutes following the determination of the MVC, subjects performed a one minute contraction at an

3 Electrode Orientation and EMG Fatigue of the Vastus Lateralis 17 intensity equal to 50% MVC. The 50% criterion was maintained by having the subjects view the KinCom monitor on which their 50% MVC value was clearly identified. Once the contractions were stabilized at 50% MVC, a stop watch was utilized to time the contractions and the subjects were verbally encouraged to maintain the contraction throughout the test. Instrumentation Surface EMG activity was recorded over the vastus lateralis muscle. We chose the vastus lateralis because it is commonly used for quadriceps EMG fatigue assessment, is not affected by changes in hip angle as is the rectus femoris, and does not exhibit anatomical heterogeneity like the vastus medialis (i.e., vastus medialis oblique). The EMG data were recorded from two sets of bipolar surface electrode assemblies, one orientated perpendicular and the other parallel to the long axis of the muscle belly. The sets of electrode assemblies were placed midway between the inguinal ligament and superior pole of the patella over the vastus lateralis muscle as determined by palpation. A common reference electrode was placed over the crest of the tibia. Proximal versus distal positioning of the parallel and perpendicular electrode assemblies was determined at random for each subject. To reduce inter-electrode impedance, the skin underlying the electrode was vigorously cleaned with alcohol swabs prior to electrode placement. The EMG signals were pre-amplified (x35) at the skin (model D-100 pre-amplifier, Therapeutics Unlimited, Iowa City IA; characteristics: Ag/Ag Cl bipolar electrodes, 2 cm center-to-center inter-electrode spacing, input impedance > 25MΩ at DC and >15MΩ at 100 Hz; and again downstream (model EMG-55 driver amplifier, Therapeutics Unlimited, Iowa City IA; characteristics: 87dB common mode rejection ratio at 60Hz, bandwidth = Hz). The total system gain was adjusted for each subject to allow maximum amplification without saturation of the analog-to-digital converter. All signals were interfaced with a BNC connector board (BNC 2080, National Instruments, Austin TX) to a 12 bit analog-to-digital converter (AT-MIO-16E-10, National Instruments, Austin TX) with a sampling rate for each channel of 1000 Hz. Signal Processing All signal processing was performed with custom programs written with LabVIEW programming software (National Instruments, Austin TX). For the amplitude analysis, the EMG signal from each electrode was divided into sixty one-second segments. For each segment, the data were full wave rectified and integrated. The integrated EMG (iemg) values for all sixty segments were regressed against time and the slope of the iemg versus time relationship was recorded as the dependent variable. Similarly, for the frequency analysis each one-second segment was processed with a Hamming window function and subsequently analyzed with a discrete Fourier transform. From the resulting power density spectrum, the median power frequency (MPF) was determined as the frequency (Hz) which divided the power density spectrum into two halves of equal area. The slope of the regression of MPF versus time was the dependent variable for the frequency analysis. For both the iemg and MPF analyses, the one-second data segments were normalized to the respective iemg and MPF values recorded during the MVC. Statistical Analyses For both the iemg and MPF data, paired t-tests were used to examine mean differences between the parallel and perpendicular slopes. Similarly, Pearson product moment correlation coefficients and simple linear regression were used to examine the relationships between the slopes from the parallel and perpendicular conditions. An alpha level of.05 was considered significant for all analyses. RESULTS The results of the paired t-test for the MPF data (see Figure 1) showed no significant difference between the parallel and perpendicular slopes (parallel = ± 0.13 %max.sec -1 ; perpendicular ± 0.21; t = 1.75; p =.09). Similarly, the iemg analysis was non-significant (parallel = 0.22 ± 0.17 %max.sec -1 ; perpendicular = 0.25 ± 0.19; t = 1.52; p = 0.14).

4 Electrode Orientation and EMG Fatigue of the Vastus Lateralis MPF slope parallel MPF slope Perpendicular Parallel electrode orientation perpendicular MPF slope (%max sec -1 ) iemg slope Perpendicular Parallel electrode orientation Figure 1. Mean (SD) slope values with parallel and perpendicular electrode orientations for the MPF (top) and iemg (bottom) data. For both the MPF (p =.09) and iemg data (p =.14), differences between orientations were not significant. However, the correlation analysis for the MPF data (see Figure 2) indicated that there was no significant relationship between the parallel and perpendicular slopes (r =.05, SEE = 0.29, p <.05). In contrast, the iemg analysis did show a significant correlation between the parallel and perpendicular slopes (r = 0.77; SEE = 0.13, p <.05). DISCUSSION It was hypothesized that alteration of electrode orientation relative to the muscle belly would alter the frequency and amplitude characteristics of the EMG signal during a prolonged contraction at 50% MVC. Our results indicate that while both parallel iemg slope perpendicular iemg slope (%max sec -1 ) Figure 2. Relationship between parallel and perpendicular slope values for the MPF (top) and iemg (bottom) data. For the MPF data, the correlation between orientations was nonsignificant (r =.05, p >.05) while the correlation between slopes for the iemg data was significant (r = 0.77, p <.05). measures were affected by the electrode orientation, frequency measures were more sensitive to changes in electrode orientation than were the amplitude measures. Neither of the paired t-tests showed a significant difference in the mean slopes derived from the parallel and perpendicular electrodes. This indicates that there was no systematic change in frequency and amplitude slopes as a result of the manipulation of electrode orientation. However, the correlation analyses did indicate an effect of electrode orientation. The correlation analysis involving MPF was not significant (r 2 = ). In contrast, the amplitude analysis found a much stronger and

5 Electrode Orientation and EMG Fatigue of the Vastus Lateralis 19 statistically significant relationship (r 2 = 0.59) between the iemg slopes of respective electrode orientations. These results indicate that there is less error in EMG amplitude estimates of fatigue than frequency estimates following manipulation of the electrode orientation. With respect to assessing fatigue of the quadriceps muscles, two points are of note. First, caution should be exercised when interpreting frequency domain measures of fatigue. The angle of pennation has been shown to vary with changes in force level (8, 10) and with changes in joint angle (8, 16). As our data indicate that changes in electrode orientation markedly affect MPF fatigue slopes, it follows that changes in pennation angle due to changes in force and/or joint angle will affect MPF fatigue estimates and introduce error in studies of fatigue of these muscles. The iemg slopes are more resistant to these effects and may provide more stable measurements. In addition, we have recently reported that iemg fatigue curves from the vastus lateralis were more reliable than MPF data derived from the same signals (18), further supporting the preferential use of iemg over MPF measures from the vastus lateralis. Second, these data indicate that one must be consistent with electrode positioning in terms of orientation in order to eliminate potential sources of error in repeated EMG assessments of fatigue. However, it should be noted that in this protocol the maximum deviation possible in orientation between electrode assemblies was created. We chose not to attempt to try to orient an electrode assembly in parallel with the estimated fiber orientation because we did not feel that accurate orientation could be achieved. In practice, repeated electrode placement would result in much less deviation than in this study and thus the correlation between electrode leads should increase accordingly. SUMMARY Manipulation of electrode orientation significantly affected MPF derived fatigue curves from the vastus lateralis, but had lesser effects on iemg data. Although electrode placement parallel to the muscle fiber is likely ideal, in a pennate muscle such as the vastus lateralis, muscles fibers do not run parallel to the axis of the muscle belly, thus it is difficult to orient surface electrodes parallel to the line of axis of the actual fibers. In situations where electrode orientation relative to muscle fiber direction is uncertain, use of time domain fatigue indices may be preferable. REFERENCES 1. Badier M, Guillot C, Lagier-Tessonnier F, Burnet H, Jammes Y. EMG power spectrum of respiratory and skeletal muscle during static contraction in healthy men. Muscle Nerve: 16: , Christensen H, Fuglsang-Frederiksen A. Quantitative surface EMG during sustained and intermittent submaximal contractions. Electoenceph Clin Neurophysiol 70: , DeLuca CJ. Myoelectrical manifestations of localized muscular fatigue in humans. CRC Crit Rev Biomed Engr 11: , devries HA. Method for evaluation of muscle fatigue and endurance from electromyographic fatigue curves. Am J Phys Med 47: , Eberstein A, Beattie B. Simultaneous measurement of muscle conduction velocity and EMG power spectrum changes during fatigue. Muscle Nerve 8: , Edwards RG, Lippold OCJ. The relation between force and integrated electrical activity in fatigued muscles. J Physiol (Lond) 132: , Fiatarone MA, Marks EC, Ryan ND, Meredith CN, Lipsitz LA, Evans WJ. High-intensity strength training in nonagenarians. Effects on skeletal muscle. J Am Med Assoc 263: , 1990

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