The present study was carried out with the surface electromyography signal of subjects during the time when subjects did the exercises of the 6 core stability trainings. We analyzed the different activity level of surface electromyography signal, and finally got various fatigue states of muscles in different exercises. Thirty subjects completed exercises of 6 core stability trainings, which were prone bridge, supine bridge, unilateral bridge (divided into two trainings,i.e. the left and right sides alternatively) and bird-dog (divided into two trainings,i.e. the left and right sides alternatively), respectively. Each exercise was held on for 1 minute and 2 minutes were given to relax between two exercises in this test. We measured both left and right sides of the body’s muscles, which included erector spina, external oblique, rectus abdominis, rectus femoris, biceps femoris, anterior tibial and gastrocnemius muscles. We adopted the frequency domain characteristic value of the surface electromyography signal,i.e. median frequency slope to analyze the muscle fatigue in this study. In the present paper, the results exhibit different fatigue degrees of the above muscles during the time when they did the core stability rehabilitation exercises. It could be concluded that supine bridge and unilateral bridge can cause more fatigue on erector spina muscle, prone bridge caused Gastrocnemius muscle much fatigue and there were statistical significant differences (P<0.05) between prone bridge and other five rehabilitation exercises in the degree of rectus abdominis muscle fatigue. There were no statistical significant differences (P>0.05) between all the left and right sides of the same-named muscles in the median frequency slope during all the exercises of the six core stability trainings,i.e. the degree which the various kinds of rehabilitation exercises effected the left and right side of the same-named muscle had no statistical significant difference (P>0.05). In this research, the conclusion presents quantized guidelines on the effects of core stability trainings on different muscles.
Citation： XIAO Jinzhuang, SUN Jinli, WANG Hongrui, YANG Xincai, ZHAO Jinkui. Difference analysis of muscle fatigue during the exercises of core stability training. Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2017, 34(2): 227-232. doi: 10.7507/1001-5515.201604019 Copy