Design of wearable device for muscle fatigue monitoring

Abstract

Exercise is very beneficial to our health but evidence show that intense training and heavy exercises out by fortitude athletes can cause skeletal muscle damage, which is known as muscle fatigue. For athletes, muscle fatigue is perhaps one of the major causes of degradation in their performance. There are various methods to monitor the muscle fatigue, of which surface electromyography is an important one. In this research work, a system is proposed to monitor muscle fatigue continuously and transmit the data wirelessly to a handheld portable device using RF module. A threshold point is set by calculating the average mean and in case of any danger a notification will be given by the device indicating onset of fatigue.