1. Muscle Function Analysis

2. What do all of these activities have in common?
TENNIS
PIANO
PLAYING
TYPING

3. What do all of these activities have in common?
They all involve repetitive motions of the muscles of the forearm and elbow. Inflammation of the tendons connected to these muscles can result from overuse. This inflammation is called “tennis elbow” and can be treated with a wrist band.

4. Muscles of the forearm
Figure 1

5. What you will do? In this experiment, you will . . .
Obtain graphical representation of the electrical activity of a muscle.
Associate muscle activity with movement of joints.
Correlate muscle activity with injury. Fi
Figure 5

6. Make A Prediction
Figure 3

7. Make A Prediction
Figure 3

8. Typical EMG Reading

10. References