Gait and Motion Analysis Laboratory, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
Research Institute for Sports Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
J Sports Sci Med. 2023 Mar 1;22(1):1-16. doi: 10.52082/jssm.2023.1. eCollection 2023 Mar.
This systematic review is aimed to provide an up-to-date summary and review on the use of surface electromyography (sEMG) in evaluating front crawl (FC) swim performance. Several online databases were searched by different combinations of selected keywords, in total 1956 articles were retrieved, and each article was assessed by a 10-item quality checklist. 16 articles were eligible to be included in this study, and most of the articles were evaluating the muscle activity about the swimming phases and focused on assessing the upper limbs muscles, only few studies have assessed the performance in starts and turns phases. Insufficient information about these two phases despite the critical contribution on final swimming time. Also, with the contribution roles of legs and trunk muscles in swimming performance, more research should be conducted to explore the overall muscle activation pattern and their roles on swimming performance. Moreover, more detailed description in participants' characteristics and more investigations of bilateral muscle activity and the asymmetrical effects on relevant biomechanical performance are recommended. Lastly, with increasing attention about the effects of muscles co-activation on swimming performance, more in-depth investigations on this topic are also highly recommended, for evaluating its influence on swimmers.
本系统综述旨在提供最新的总结和综述，关于表面肌电图（sEMG）在评估自由泳（FC）游泳表现中的应用。通过不同组合的选定关键字在几个在线数据库中进行了搜索，总共检索到 1956 篇文章，并通过 10 项质量检查表对每篇文章进行了评估。16 篇文章符合纳入本研究的标准，其中大多数文章评估了游泳阶段的肌肉活动，并侧重于评估上肢肌肉，只有少数研究评估了出发和转身阶段的表现。尽管这些阶段对最终游泳时间有重要贡献，但关于这两个阶段的信息仍然不足。此外，由于腿部和躯干肌肉在游泳表现中的贡献作用，应该进行更多的研究来探索整体肌肉激活模式及其对游泳表现的作用。此外，建议更详细地描述参与者的特征，更深入地研究双侧肌肉活动和对相关生物力学性能的不对称影响。最后，随着人们越来越关注肌肉协同激活对游泳表现的影响，也强烈建议对这一主题进行更深入的研究，以评估其对游泳运动员的影响。
