Figure 5

Lower leg EMG activation profiles during 1.0 m/s walking. Tibialis Anterior (TA), Gastrocnemius Medial Head (GASM), Gastrocnemius Lateral Head (GASL). Mean EMG intensity curves of lower leg muscles for control group and seven amputee subjects during 0.7, 1.0, 1.3, and 1.6 m/s treadmill walking. Mean curves are calculated from 40 consecutive cycles. The grand mean curve is shown for the control group. Vertical lines show average toe-off events for the fastest and slowest walking speeds. In amputee subjects, the trend of increasing EMG amplitude with walking speed was not seen across amputee subjects. In amputee subject A02, the TA amplitude at 80-100% gait cycle scaled with speed and the GASM/GASL amplitude decreased with speed from 0.7-1.3 m/s then increased at 1.6 m/s. In subject A07, the TA at 0-20% gait cycle had relatively low activation higher speeds and high activation at 0.7-1.0 m/s. A similar pattern was seen in A12 with very high activation of the TA at 20-40% gait cycle at the slowest speed and relatively low activation at 0.7-1.3 m/s. In subject A11, the GASM/GASL at 0-20% of the gait cycle had relatively low activation at 0.7-1.3 m/s, but had large increase in amplitude at 1.6 m/s. In subject A12, there was a phase shift and increase in amplitude with speed for the TA and GASM/GASL at 40-60% gait cycle.