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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Neuroscience
  • Clinical Assessment

Background:

  • Objective quantification of Parkinson's disease (PD) tremor is challenging, relying on subjective scales.
  • Surface electromyography (sEMG) offers a potential objective measure for tremor assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the feasibility of integrating sEMG with MDS-UPDRS tasks in healthy adults.
  • To establish normative low-frequency muscle activation profiles for upper limbs.
  • To investigate signal behavior during specific motor tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Thirty-two healthy participants performed seven upper-limb tasks aligned with MDS-UPDRS.
  • sEMG data were recorded from forearm muscles, normalized, and filtered at 14 Hz.
  • Frequency-domain (FFT) and time-frequency (STFT) analyses were employed.

Main Results:

  • Significant task-dependent differences in low-frequency (3.5-9 Hz) muscle activation were observed (p < 0.05).
  • Finger tapping increased low-frequency activity; pronation-supination showed stable activation.
  • Frequencies above 12 Hz had minimal task discrimination.

Conclusions:

  • Low-frequency tremor-like activity can occur in healthy individuals during specific MDS-UPDRS tasks.
  • Normative sEMG benchmarks are established for future clinical validation in PD.
  • Further validation is needed before using these measures for PD staging.