Grip force in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia and in healthy subjects. A study with the Grippit instrument
| Autor: | U M Nordenskiöld, G Grimby |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Fibromyalgia Immunology Arthritis Arthritis Rheumatoid Rheumatology Reference Values Immunology and Allergy Medicine Humans In patient Aged business.industry Muscles Healthy subjects General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Hand medicine.anatomical_structure Evaluation Studies as Topic Reference values Rheumatoid arthritis Physical therapy Upper limb Female Grip force Electronics business Muscle Contraction |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian journal of rheumatology. 22(1) |
| ISSN: | 0300-9742 |
| Popis: | The reliability of the grip force instrument, Grippit was tested on 51 right-handed women of which 18 were healthy, 19 had rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and 14 had fibromyalgia (FM). Normative data was obtained from 169 healthy subjects. Results indicate that the reliability of Grippit was high in healthy and rheumatoid arthritic women and satisfactory in women with fibromyalgia. All patients showed greatly reduced grip force (RA had on average 21% and FM 40% of the control values) when compared to healthy women. Healthy women had on average 54% of men's grip force. The ratio between average force over 10 seconds and peak force was 73% for RA women, 69% for FM women, 83% for healthy women and 85% for healthy men. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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