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    Changes on EEG Power Spectrum with Carbohydrate Mouth Rinsing
    ( 2023-01-01)
    Kamaruddin H.K.
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    Bakar A.H.A.
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    Zainuddin N.F.
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    Carbohydrate (CHO) mouth rinse has been shown to activated brain regions via oral receptors that related to rewards and motor control that can enhance exercise performance. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of CHO mouth rinsing on electroencephalography (EEG) power spectrum responses. Ten recreational athletes performed a mouth rinsing for 10 s with CHO or placebo (PLB) solution on seated position, eyes closed and in air conditioning room. The EEG was measured during the initial mouth rinsing with 14 electrodes attached on the participant’s scalp. The EEG activity included alpha, beta, delta, and theta power increased following mouth rinsing (CHO and PLB). However, a significant alpha power was observed with CHO when compared to PLB mouth rinsing on frontal and temporal regions (p = 0.003). No significant differences within beta, delta, and theta power for both solution comparisons, respectively (p > 0.05). The results of this study demonstrate that brain activity may be related to the presence of CHO mouth rinsing. The changes in cortical responses particularly in alpha power may influence the increased of arousal and motivation level.
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    Dynamic modelling of the spine for the estimation of vertebral joint torques using Gordon’s method
    (Semarak Ilmu Publishing, 2025-01)
    Munawwarah Solihah Muhammad Isa
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    World Health Organization (WHO) recognised musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) as the main contributor to disability worldwide, with low back pain as the major disorder globally. The occupational disorder normally occurs during lifting. The weight of the load and manual handling tasks during lifting has an impact on the spine and joint torque. The purpose of this study is to propose a dynamic model of the spine that can estimate the vertebral joint torques. This study is a bimodal approach that consists of the experimental and theoretical parts. Ten healthy UniMAP students (10 males) participated in this study. The subjects were required to lift a 3kg weight plate for kinematics and EMG data collection. Retro-reflective markers were attached to the subject body, and then, the data was collected and stored in QTM software. Kinematic data was processed using C-Motion Visual3D. Eight Trigno Wireless Sensors were attached on the back muscles (left and right erector spinae, latissimus dorsi, external oblique and internal oblique). The EMG data were stored in EMG Acquisition software and subsequently, were processed using EMG Analysis software. Gordon’s method was used to develop a mathematical model of the spine. The model comprises of five kinematic chains which connected three lumbar, two thoracic and one cervical. The model calculated the value of joint torque on flexion/extension movement using Matlab and Microsoft Excel. When calculated on L5, the model gives an estimation within 0 – 30 kgm2s-2. The model was further used to estimate value of L3, L1, MAI and T2. The estimate average value of joint torque at L3 is within 5 – 25 kgm2s-2, MAI is within 0 – 6 kgm2s-2 and T2 is within 0 – 1 kgm2s-2. The average RMS values show the highest muscle activity on the right internal oblique muscle (1519 µV), followed by the right external oblique (1166 µV) and left external oblique (418 µV). The results obtained gives an insight on the value of joint torque that have been applied by the spine and the most activated back muscles during lifting.
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    Biomechanical and ergonomics study of manual material handling during team lifting activity
    This project focused only on the joint contribution and ground reaction force that took place during the team lifting activity made up of two people. This present study hypothesized that the workplace variables such as the weight of loads, the height of load to be lifted and gender would affect the kinetics and kinematics variables. Eight healthy participants (BMI: 18.5 till 24.9 kg/m2) divided into four team where there are two groups of male and two groups of females with two individuals in each team have performed asymmetric lifting task under four different conditions which are two weights of loads (5 kg and 15 kg) and two level of lifting heights (participant knuckle and elbow height from ground). There are five Oqus cameras motion capture system (Pro Reflex infrared, Qualysis) to capture the participant motion, Qualisys Track Manager (QTM) software had been used to label the markers on participant body while the force plate had been used for data collection of ground reaction force throughout the lifting activities. The data collected from QTM converted into C3D file to be used in Visual 3D software to do bone modelling and analysis on ground reaction force, joint angle and joint moment. The results show that here was a statistically significant interaction between the effect on gender and load on joint angle, p=0.001 for hip. However, there is no statistically significant interaction between gender and load on right and left knee angle. Besides the two-way ANOVA was conducted that examine the effect of gender and load on joint moment. Thus, there is a statistically significant interaction between the effect on gender and load on joint angle, p=0.001 for all joint moment at both elbow and knuckle height. In term of ground reaction force, there was a statistically significant interaction effect between gender and load on the combined dependent variable during to-lift phase at in lifting phase position at elbow height and knuckle height, p=0.001 when using two-way MANOVA. Based on the results of this study, it was concluded that hip joint angle, hip and knee joint moment affected by gender and load while for ground reaction force are influenced by the variables of lifting height, lifting stage, gender and weight of loads.
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