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Strength amplifying hand exoskeleton

2015 41st Annual Northeast Biomedical Engineering Conference (NEBEC), 2015
Degenerative muscle diseases characterized by loss of strength and dexterity in the human hand significantly affect the physical, emotional, and social well-being of affected individuals. An assistive hand exoskeleton was designed to amplify residual muscle strength and improve functionality by assisting pinching and grasping motions.
C.C. Cincotti, S. O'Donnell, G.E. Zapata, C.M. Rabolli, B.F. BuSha   +4 more
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Association between Mediterranean diet and hand grip strength in older adult women.

Clinical Nutrition, 2019
BACKGROUND & AIMS Mediterranean Diet (MD) is an eating pattern associated with multiple healthy benefits, including the conservation of skeletal muscle. Frailty is a major geriatric syndrome characterized by low muscle strength.
L. Barrea, G. Muscogiuri, C. Di Somma, G. Tramontano, V. De Luca, M. Illario, A. Colao, S. Savastano   +7 more
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Grip strength of the human hand-measurements on normal subjects with a new hand strength analysis system (Hastras)

Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, 1994
This study describes a method of acquiring data from healthy and non-injured men that can be used as reference data when measuring the grip strength of the human hand using newly developed, PC-based hand strength analysis equipment--'Hastras'. Hastras can be used for continuous measurement and recording of force when the subject grips a sensor with ...
O A, Lindahl, A, Nyström, P, Bjerle, A, Boström   +3 more
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Testing the Grip Strength of Individual Fingers of the Hand in Relation to the Grip Strength of the Whole Hand

Material and Mechanical Engineering Technology
This paper investigates the grip strength of individual fingers, utilising a medical dynamometer to measure the force exerted by each finger and both hands across multiple series of tests. The objective of this study is to provide a comprehensive analysis of finger grip strength among different groups, segmented by centile, gender, activity levels, and
Emilia Bąk, Karolina Czajka, Adrianna Dudziak, Amelia Fabiańska, Bartosz Wieczorek   +4 more
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Normative hand grip strength and prediction models for Iranian office employees

Work, 2019
BACKGROUND: Normative data on Hand grip strength has a wide range of application and is of great value. OBJECTIVE: To establish gender and age-specific reference data concerning hand grip strength of Iranian office workers, to explore possible ...
Sajjad Rostamzadeh, M. Saremi, S. Tabatabaei   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The effectiveness of joint-protection programs on pain, hand function, and grip strength levels in patients with hand arthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Journal of Hand Therapy, 2019
STUDY DESIGN Systematic review with meta-analysis. INTRODUCTION Joint protection (JP) has been developed as a self-management intervention to assist people with hand arthritis to improve occupational performance and minimize joint deterioration over ...
P. Bobos, G. Nazari, Mike Szekeres, E. Lalone, L. Ferreira, J. Macdermid   +5 more
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Association of baseline hand grip strength and annual change in hand grip strength with mortality among older people.

Archives of gerontology and geriatrics (Print), 2019
BACKGROUND Clinicians have increasing access to longitudinal data on hand grip strength (HGS), often measured for frailty or sarcopenia assessment, of their older clients. Evidence on the association of change in HGS with mortality is mixed.
R. Malhotra, Md. Ismail Tareque, N. Tan, Stefan Ma   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The strength of the hand

Applied Ergonomics, 1972
A B, Swanson, I B, Matev, G, de Groot
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Hand and forearm strength and its relation to tennis

The American Journal of Sports Medicine, 1983
Eight expert tennis players and 12 nontennis playing controls were studied to determine the relationship between dominant and minor extremities in regard to hand and forearm isometric strength. The results re vealed that overall strength, including wrist extension, was significantly greater (P 0.01) in the dominant arm in both groups.
A M, Strizak, G W, Gleim, A, Sapega, J A, Nicholas   +3 more
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Preoperative hand-grip strength can be a predictor of stair ascent and descent ability after total knee arthroplasty in female patients.

Journal of Orthopaedic Science, 2019
BACKGROUND Hand-grip strength was reported to be important predictor of functional limitation and disability related to low muscle strength in old people.
S. Hashimoto, Kazuhisa Hatayama, Masanori Terauchi, Kenichi Saito, H. Higuchi, H. Chikuda   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source