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NORMAL VALUES OF KEY PINCH STRENGTH IN A HEALTHY NIGERIAN POPULATION.

Annals of Ibadan postgraduate medicine, 2016
With the severity of machine hand injuries in our environment, the need to determine the normal values for key pinch strength with which to compare restorative surgeries was justified.A cross sectional survey of participants who had no previous hand injuries limiting hand function. Data obtained included age, gender, body mass index, hand dominance and
Michael, AI, Iyun, AO, Olawoye, OA, Ademola, SA, Nnabuko, RE, Oluwatosin, OM   +5 more
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Multi-Objective Pinch Analysis with Multiple Resources

Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2015
Pinch Analysis is an optimization technique that has been applied to a wide array of problems ranging from water networks to power systems. In general, Pinch Analysis is applied to single objective optimization problems.
G.S. Krishna Priya, S. Bandyopadhyay, R.R. Tan   +2 more
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Normative data of grip and pinch strengths in healthy adults of Iranian population.

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2014
Measuring and comparing grip and pinch strengths with their normative data is a valid method to detect intensity of the numerous damages of hand. This research was carried out with the aim of establishing normative data of grip strength and three types ...
Mostafa Mohammadian, Alireza Choobineh, Aliakbar Haghdoost, Naser Hasheminejad   +3 more
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Grip and pinch strength: Reference values for children and adolescents from India

Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, 2019
PURPOSE: The purpose of the study was to provide reference values for grip and pinch strength for healthy children and adolescents in India. METHODS: Grip and pinch strength were recorded for 900 participants stratified into 5 chronological age groups (5–
Mamta Shetty, Sharon Balasundaran, Rajani Mullerpatan   +2 more
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Relation between grip and pinch strength and pitch type in high school pitchers with and without elbow symptoms

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2020
Objective: Gripping and pinching a ball is a fundamentally important part of the kinetic chain for throwing baseball pitches of various types. This study of high school pitchers was conducted to assess the association between grip and pinch strength, the
Tsuyoshi Tajika, Noboru Oya, Tsuyoshi Ichinose, Daisuke Shimoyama, Tsuyoshi Sasaki, Takanori Hamano, Hitoshi Shitara, Atsushi Yamamoto, Masaaki Sakamoto, Kenji Takagishi, Hirotaka Chikuda   +10 more
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Pain in the penis due to attraction caused by neodymium magnets

Clinical Case Reports, 2023
Key Clinical Message Multiple neodymium magnets can pinch tissue and cause barotrauma. Be careful if the tissue of the penis or foreskin is pinched, as this may cause foreskin necrosis or damage to the urethra.
Yuki Akiyama, Ryo Ichibayashi
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Amyloidosis: A story of how inframammary erosions eclipsed inconspicuous periorbital ecchymoses

International Journal of Women's Dermatology, 2016
Systemic amyloidosis is a rare disease that can be rapidly progressive due to widespread organ involvement. There are well-described renal, cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, and dermatologic findings.
Andrew Kelsey, MD, Diane H. Smith, MD, Joyce Meng, MD, Michael Murphy, MD, Marti J. Rothe, MD   +4 more
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Theoretical and numerical research of wire array Z-pinch and dynamic hohlraum at IAPCM

Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2016
Dense Z-pinch plasmas are powerful and energy-efficient laboratory sources of X-rays, and show the possibility to drive inertial confinement fusion (ICF).
Ning Ding, Yang Zhang, Delong Xiao, Jiming Wu, Zihuan Dai, Li Yin, Zhiming Gao, Shunkai Sun, Chuang Xue, Cheng Ning, Xiaojian Shu, Jianguo Wang   +11 more
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Improvements in upper extremity isometric muscle strength, dexterity, and self-care independence during the sub-acute phase of stroke recovery: an observational study on the effects of intensive comprehensive rehabilitation

Frontiers in Neurology
BackgroundStroke often impairs upper extremity motor function, with recovery in the sub-acute phase being crucial for regaining independence. This study examines changes in isometric muscle strength, dexterity, and self-care independence during this ...
Řasová K., Řasová K., Martinková P., Vařejková M., Miznerova B., Miznerova B., Hlinovská J., Hlinovský D., Iskendri D., Lebdušková L., Vojíková R., Zakouřilová J., Běhounek J., Musil V., Philipp T.   +14 more
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Non-Uniform Sample Assignment in Training Set Improving Recognition of Hand Gestures Dominated with Similar Muscle Activities

Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2018
So far, little is known how the sample assignment of surface electromyogram (sEMG) features in training set influences the recognition efficiency of hand gesture, and the aim of this study is to explore the impact of different sample arrangements in ...
Yao Zhang, Yanjian Liao, Xiaoying Wu, Lin Chen, Qiliang Xiong, Zhixian Gao, Xiaolin Zheng, Xiaolin Zheng, Guanglin Li, Wensheng Hou, Wensheng Hou   +10 more
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