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    Area of Science:

    • Neuroscience
    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Rehabilitation Medicine

    Background:

    • Myoelectric control of prostheses shows high performance in unimpaired individuals but is suboptimal for amputees.
    • Poor electromyography (EMG) signal quality from amputees is a primary limitation for effective prosthetic control.
    • Existing methods for improving EMG signal quality in amputees are limited.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in enhancing EMG signal quality for myoelectric prosthetic control in amputees.
    • To determine if tDCS can modulate brain activity to improve the classification accuracy of hand and wrist motions from EMG signals.

    Main Methods:

    • Six unilateral transradial amputees participated in a study involving active and sham anodal tDCS.
    • Surface EMG signals were recorded from affected and intact sides during 11 hand/wrist motions before and after tDCS.
    • Autoregression coefficients and linear discriminant analysis were used for EMG pattern recognition and classification error rate (CER) calculation.

    Main Results:

    • Active anodal tDCS significantly reduced the average CER by 10.1% for the affected side.
    • Sham tDCS did not significantly affect the CER for the affected side.
    • The intact side showed no change in CER with sham tDCS but an increase with active tDCS, suggesting targeted modulation.

    Conclusions:

    • tDCS effectively modulates brain activity to improve EMG signal quality and classification performance in amputees.
    • This neurostimulation approach holds significant potential for reducing the learning period required for amputees to master myoelectric prosthetic control.
    • tDCS offers a promising avenue for enhancing the clinical utility and user experience of advanced prosthetic devices.