Summary
Purpose
To investigate which muscular maneuvers provide larger electric activity (EA) of the
suprahyoid (SH) and infrahyoid (IH) muscles to be used as surface electromyography
(SEMG) signal normalization reference.
Methods
The electrical potentials of the SH and IH muscles of 12 subjects were evaluated using
six muscular maneuvers, involving the position of the tongue and effort. It was selected
as maximum voluntary sustained activity maneuver, the one having the minor coefficient
of variation and the smallest value for each muscle group. The EA signal was converted
using the root mean square in microvolts. It was considered then the maximum signal
of each maneuver as the difference between the mean of three measures and the resting
potential.
Results
The maneuvers that provided higher mean potentials with minor coefficient of variation
and smallest P value were incomplete swallowing (IS) with effort (mean potential equal to 56.73±8.68 with coefficient of variation of 15.30%) in SH group, and tongue retracted with
mouth open (TROM, mean potential equal to 46.57±7.83 with coefficient of variation of 16.81%) in IH group.
Conclusion
The IS with effort and TROM maneuvers should be considered for signal normalization
in these muscles, respectively, and may provide conditions for using the SEMG in voice
clinic.
Significance
The use of normalization standards in researches of SH and IH muscles in the voice
area will allow comparisons among future works.
Key Words
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: October 08, 2012
Accepted:
February 22,
2012
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Copyright
© 2012 The Voice Foundation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
