Wearable Muscle Fatigue System Using Capacitance Coupling Electrodes

Abstract

The muscle fatigue is accumulated extra by abusing the muscle during exercise. These are risk of causing the injury, overwork and reduction in exercise efficiency. Therefore, detecting and manage the muscle fatigue is important. A muscle fatigue detection methods has a method using myopotential. The electrodes with adhesive gel are generally used to measure it. There are risk of causing the skin irritation and metal allergy or cannot reuse. Therefore, we aim to develop the muscle fatigue detection system without the conventional electrodes. The developed system was adopted the capacitance coupling electrodes. It can reuse without influence on the skin because the adhesive gel isn't use. We evaluated the muscle fatigue of the anterior tibialis before and after futsal. As a result, we considered there were few subject who could detect the muscle fatigue because the experimental conditions were unclear. We plan to do re-experiment after clarifying the experimental conditions.