Books and CDs
The following is a list of books that Dr. Sella has written or co-authored. They are available for purchase as soft cover books (some have multiple volumes) or on a CD in the Adobe Acrobat format.
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Surface Electromyography: A Neurological Clinical Approach 4th Edition, 2003 ISBN: 1-884325-08-4 Book: $120.00 + shipping/handling CD: $50.00 +shipping/handling This 360 page, 3 volume text walks the reader through the proper protocols of SEMG based on muscular innervations: roots, plexuses and nerves. The introduction is comprehensive in describing the methodology and technical terminology behind SEMG. Also, the Interpretation Chapter provides clinical examples with actual SEMG readings of repetitive motion disorders, whiplash injuries, low back pain and many others. The protocols are useful for all physicians and physical therapists. Of special relevance, these protocols are useful for neurologists, neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons and physiatrists. Biofeedback protocols could be utilized by neuropsychologists.
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Muscles in Motion: The SEMG of the Range of Motion of the Human Body 3rd Edition, 2002 ISBN: 1-884325-00-9 Book: $120.00 + shipping/handling CD: $50.00 + shipping/handling This comprehensive text is 316 pages in two volumes. It takes the reader step-by-step through the protocol for testing every muscle in the body. Illustrations of electrode placements are given for each muscle. This easy to use text acts as a technical manual for proper SEMG testing and assessment. The protocols of the SEMG is appropriate for physical therapists, occupational therapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, orthopedic surgeons and physiatrists. A diagnostic assessment and biofeedback protocols based on the range of motion are included.
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Muscular Dynamics: Electromyographical Assessment of Energy and Motion 1st Edition, 2000 ISBN: 1-884325-14-9 Book: $120.00 + shipping/handling CD: $50.00 + shipping/handling This is a 406 page comprehensive book based on the author's study of 6400 skeletal muscles through the pertinent ROM. It includes topics not discussed in any other SEMG text before. These include the following issues: 1) internal consistency, reproducibility and reliability 2) sensitivity and specificity; positive and negative predictive values 3) activity/rest ratio (A/R) 4) laterality: right/left muscular pair differences 5) normalization 6) the database on 173 skeletal muscles 7) regression analysis on 10 joints and 173 muscles 8) ranking summary tables on the 10 joints and 173 muscles in terms of amplitude potentials This textbook can be utilized as the largest single reference value manual written to date on the subject of SEMG dynamic protocols.
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Graphics of Motion: The Electromyography of Muscular Dynamics 1st Edition, 2000 ISBN: 1-884325-13-0 Book: $120.00 black & white or $220.00 deluxe color + shipping/handling CD: $50.00 + shipping/handling This textbook is comprised of 372 pages. It is the atlas counterpart of the "Muscular Dynamics" textbook. All the data on the cranial and cervical nerves, brachial plexus, thoraco-lumbar nerves and lubrosacral plexus are described in bar graphs. They refer to each muscle's activity potential ranking through the primary or secondary joint ROM as well as the normalization values for each muscle through the ROM. Data on all individual nerves are ranked in terms of the muscular amplituded potentials as well as in terms of radicular differential diagnosis. This is the first SEMG textbook which shows the agonist and antagonist relations of each skeletal muscle tested through the primary or secondary ROM with the other members of the myotatic units. This is shown by muscle and by individual segment of motion for each joint. The reader may utilize the data in terms of understanding quantitatively muscular relationships and ROM segments relationships in terms of SEMG amplitude potentials. This may be very relevant in the clinical work or neuromuscular rehabilitation (SEMG biofeedback) as well as in athletic or ergonomic training. The data derived from the study of the 6400 muscles is described in detail in the "Muscular Dynamics" textbook.
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Guidelines for Neuromuscular Reeducation with SEMG/Biofeedback 1st Edition, 2000 ISBN: 1-884325-15-7 Book: $120.00 + shipping/handling CD: $50.00 + shipping/handling This textbook is comprised of 581 pages in 3 volumes. It is offering the SEMG clinician and athletic or ergonomic trainer quantitative guidelines for SEMG neuromuscular reeducation. The author utilizes the neurologic and neuromuscular clinical mode for adapting the SEMG investigative dynamic protocols and neuromuscular reeducation (biofeedback) to more than 100 skeletal muscles. It contains subjects not covered in other biofeedback books. They include the following: 1) investigator/clinician training 2) the physiological/dynamic protocols 3) the SEMG biofeedback report and conclusions 4) discussion on the SEMG biofeedback process in terms of the afferent and efferent pathways involved 5) the SEMG/biofeedback encounter in terms of observation of the patient or trainee from a clinical perspective and ambiental factors as well as medico-legal considerations. 6) the neuromuscular history 7) the neuromuscular examination including motor pathologies 8) disorders of gait and balance 9) neuromuscular dysfunction and pain 10) SEMG biofeedback and the 10 joints: joint and muscular examination within the clinical perspective for each joint 11) SEMG biofeedback for the upper and lower extremities including the head, neck and trunk muscles. The quantitative data on each individual muscle derive from the database of 6400 muscles described in the "Muscular Dynamics" textbook. In addition, data on minimal and maximal amplitude potential values forming the "envelope" around an average activity value is described. The reader may utilize the clinical and diagnostic approach at the level of medical and related investigation. The neuromuscular reeducation can be done for the first time in quantitative terms based on the reference values.
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Muscular Assessment Reference Manual
1st Edition, 2001 ISBN: 1-884325-16-5 Book: $25.00 + shipping/handling CD: $15.00 + shipping/handling This comprehensive reference text of 67 pages describes the statistics of SEMG of the ROM of the 10 major joints. Activity and resting values of 150 discrete muscles are described through the SEMG testing of primary or secondary joint ROM. The values are derived from the testing of >6500 muscles. The statistics include the average activity or resting potentials, the standard deviation, standard error, 95% confidence interval, T-testing and variance testing for activity vs. resting values, the activity/rest ratio and the normalization of individual muscle values in comparison to the group average for each joint. This textbook is a necessity for the SEMG investigator and biofeedback clinician. The statistical data is relevant to clinicians and forensic examiners as well as attorneys working on cases involving SEMG and the Daubert rule of evidence.
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Myofascial Pain Syndrome: Manual Trigger Point & SEMG Biofeedback Therapy Methods 1st Edition, 2001 ISBN: 1-884325-17-3 Book: $65.00 + shipping/handling CD: $35.00 + shipping/handling This textbook was written in collaboration with Richard E. Finn, CMTPT, PTS, CMT, ACBT. It is the first textbook which combines the art and science of clinical assessment and treatment of myofascial pain syndrome with the objective assessment and rehabilitation treatment of SEMG biofeedback. The book includes novel findings in terms of muscular assessment and treatment with the acquired knowledge of statistically derived definitions of muscular agonism and antagonism. Other novel findings are the definitions of the vector of action in terms of the primary myotatic unit as a component of the larger myofascial chain which includes the proximal and distal myotatic units. The book has 181 pages and describes 75 muscles in terms of trigger point findings as well as the manual and biofeedback assessment and therapy.
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Facial Paralysis: Neuromuscular Reeducation with SEMG/Biofeedback 1st Edition, 2001 ISBN: 1-884325-20-3 Book: $75.00 + shipping/handling CD: $40.00 + shipping/handling This is the most complete textbook in the realm of facial paralysis assessment and treatment with SEMG neuromuscular reeducation. This is the only textbook which discusses the 16 muscles innervated by the facial nerve in terms of their involvement in the presentation of facial paralysis. The investigative and treatment aspects are discussed for each muscle. The author presents a chapter on synkinesis from the biofeedback perspective. The textbook includes a new regional functional classification of the muscles. This aids in the understanding of facial paralysis investigation and treatment from the myofascial perspective in addition to the neurologic perspective. The manual contains pictures representing the SEMG electrodes' placements on the pertinent muscles.
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Inclinometry, SEMG & Hand Dynamometry Methodologies in Clinical & Disability Medicine 2nd Edition, 2002 ISBN: 0-9621-736-6-5 Book: $75.00 + shipping/handling CD: $40.00 + shipping/handling This is the first reference manual on the investigation of three objective techniques for evaluation of range of motion, muscular activity and hand grip. Dr. J. J. Gerhardt is a foremost authority on the subject of the measurement of the range of motion of joints. His methodology and data are recognized as authoritative in the fields of disability medicine, orthopedics, physical medicine and physical/occupational therapy. The joint ROM data presented in this text is standardized. The methodology has been validated with SEMG by Dr. G. E. Sella. The SEMG section and the hand dynamometry section have been written by Dr. Sella. A database which allows for standardization and comparison in the fields described above as well as in neuromuscular rehabilitation have been provided by the author in the text. This text will serve as the standard of documentation in the three fields for years to come.
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Soft Tissue Injury Evaluation: Forensic Criteria. A Practical Manual 1st Edition, 1997 ISBN: 1-884325-12-2 Book: $60.00 + shipping/handling CD: $30.00 + shipping/handling This textbook has been written in collaboration with C. C. S. Donaldson, Ph. D. It is aimed at the disability evaluator, attorney or other interested professionals in the field of forensic medicine. It describes a number of objective methodologies for testing internal consistency of performance as well as the intensity of soft tissue injury symptoms. SEMG is one of the investigative methodologies described in addition to dynamometry, inclinometry, algometry and QEEG. This is the first text which discusses the strengths and limitations of each methodology. It discusses optimal ways to combine different investigative objective methodologies. Such combination may be necessary in order to ensure that the results may not be technical artifacts. It is shown at the same time that, in combination, the strength of one methodology may counter the limitations of another. |