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The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficient stroke patterns of manual wheelchair propulsion in the repetition operation. The state of the muscle fatigue was evaluated using the averaged rectified value and the mean power frequency of 5-channel surface electromyograms of the upper arm and the chest. In addition, the propulsion efficiency of was estimated from the driving torque and total muscle activities. Four different stroke patterns of arcing, semicircular, single looping over propulsion, and double looping over propulsion were examined by 6 healthy male subjects. The experimental results of the subjects with muscle fatigue tendency suggested that the stroke pattern of the semicircular which draws locus an oval was the most effective in four stroke patterns because of low muscle fatigue and high proportion efficiency.
