Preksha Meditation & Human Health: 5.5.3 Skin Surface Electrodes

Due to their non- invasive character in most cases surface electrodes are used in kinesiological studies. Besides the benefit of easy handling, their main limitation is that only surface muscles can be detected. The selection of an electrode type strongly depends on the given investigation and condition, one electrode type cannot cover all possible requirements. For surface electrodes, silver/silver chloride pre-gelled electrodes were used electrodes. Wet-gel electrodes have better conduction and impedance conditions (=lower impedance) than adhesive gel electrodes so these electrodes were used.