Cover Image

Significance of the electromyographic analysis of the upper limb muscles of cricket bowlers: Recommendations from studies of overhead-throwing athletes

Link to publisher's homepage at http://www.worldscientific.com/

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nizam Uddin, Ahamed, Sundaraj, Kenneth, Assoc. Prof. Dr., R. Badlishah, Ahmad, Prof. Dr., Matiur J., Rahman, Md. Ashraf, Ali, Md. Anamul, Islam
Other Authors: ahamed1557@hotmail.com
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Publishing Company. 2015
Subjects:
Electromyography
Cricket bowling
Bowler
Over-head throwing
Athletes
Upper limb muscle
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/39525
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my.unimap-39525
record_format dspace
spelling my.unimap-395252015-04-16T09:16:02Z Significance of the electromyographic analysis of the upper limb muscles of cricket bowlers: Recommendations from studies of overhead-throwing athletes Nizam Uddin, Ahamed Sundaraj, Kenneth, Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Badlishah, Ahmad, Prof. Dr. Matiur J., Rahman Md. Ashraf, Ali Md. Anamul, Islam ahamed1557@hotmail.com kenneth@unimap.edu.my badli@unimap.edu.my Electromyography Cricket bowling Bowler Over-head throwing Athletes Upper limb muscle Link to publisher's homepage at http://www.worldscientific.com/ The purpose of this study was twofold: (i) to review the existing literature on electromyographic (EMG) analysis of the upper limb muscles of present overhead-throwing (OT) athletes during throwing and of cricket bowlers (CBs) during cricket bowling (CB) and, (ii) to discuss the importance of and generate recommendations for the EMG assessment of the muscle activity of CBs with respect to previous studies of OT athletes. A literature search of the PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar electronic databases was performed to identify relevant articles published up to December 2012. This search was performed to evaluate the following areas, (i) what are the upper limb muscles that should be evaluated during OT sports and cricket bowling? (ii) what types of EMG methodologies have been used? (iii) what are the anthropometric, performance and physical functional variables that are usually selected? and (iv) what recommendations can be made for the assessment of the muscle activity of CBs? The search identifies 32 publications on OT athletes and 4 on CBs. The results note the following conclusions: (i) there are relatively few CB-related papers that utilize EMG, particularly for the assessment of muscle activity and coordination, (ii) a total of 22 upper limb muscles were investigated using EMG (from both criteria), (iii) surface electrodes are used more frequently than needle electrodes, (iv) most of the article normalized and analyzed the EMG amplitudes than the frequency, and the data was more often analyzed through a descriptive statistical analysis and (v) the majority of the studies analyzed the right limb of physically normal (uninjured) male's both the amateur and professional athletes that were 20 to 29 years of age. Finally, the published evidence on CBs is inadequate to validate a sound recommendation for the assessment of the muscles of CBs using EMG. However, the studies on OT athletes do provide guidelines that can be used to analyze CBs. The overall conclusion of this review show that, further studies are needed to evaluate the efficacy of EMG for the assessment of the upper limb muscle of CBs to ultimately identify and prevent injury which is still a matter of discussion in the sports medicine community. 2015-04-16T09:16:01Z 2015-04-16T09:16:01Z 2014-08 Article Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 14(4), 2014, pages 1-32 0219-5194 http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0219519414300051 http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/39525 en World Scientific Publishing Company.
institution Universiti Malaysia Perlis
building UniMAP Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Malaysia Perlis
content_source UniMAP Library Digital Repository
url_provider http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/
language English
topic Electromyography
Cricket bowling
Bowler
Over-head throwing
Athletes
Upper limb muscle
spellingShingle Electromyography
Cricket bowling
Bowler
Over-head throwing
Athletes
Upper limb muscle
Nizam Uddin, Ahamed
Sundaraj, Kenneth, Assoc. Prof. Dr.
R. Badlishah, Ahmad, Prof. Dr.
Matiur J., Rahman
Md. Ashraf, Ali
Md. Anamul, Islam
Significance of the electromyographic analysis of the upper limb muscles of cricket bowlers: Recommendations from studies of overhead-throwing athletes
description Link to publisher's homepage at http://www.worldscientific.com/
author2 ahamed1557@hotmail.com
author_facet ahamed1557@hotmail.com
Nizam Uddin, Ahamed
Sundaraj, Kenneth, Assoc. Prof. Dr.
R. Badlishah, Ahmad, Prof. Dr.
Matiur J., Rahman
Md. Ashraf, Ali
Md. Anamul, Islam
format Article
author Nizam Uddin, Ahamed
Sundaraj, Kenneth, Assoc. Prof. Dr.
R. Badlishah, Ahmad, Prof. Dr.
Matiur J., Rahman
Md. Ashraf, Ali
Md. Anamul, Islam
author_sort Nizam Uddin, Ahamed
title Significance of the electromyographic analysis of the upper limb muscles of cricket bowlers: Recommendations from studies of overhead-throwing athletes
title_short Significance of the electromyographic analysis of the upper limb muscles of cricket bowlers: Recommendations from studies of overhead-throwing athletes
title_full Significance of the electromyographic analysis of the upper limb muscles of cricket bowlers: Recommendations from studies of overhead-throwing athletes
title_fullStr Significance of the electromyographic analysis of the upper limb muscles of cricket bowlers: Recommendations from studies of overhead-throwing athletes
title_full_unstemmed Significance of the electromyographic analysis of the upper limb muscles of cricket bowlers: Recommendations from studies of overhead-throwing athletes
title_sort significance of the electromyographic analysis of the upper limb muscles of cricket bowlers: recommendations from studies of overhead-throwing athletes
publisher World Scientific Publishing Company.
publishDate 2015
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/39525
_version_ 1643799096947900416
score 13.222552

Similar Items