A practical posture for hand grip dynamometry in the clinical setting

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 224-228

  Hillman, T E ^a   Nunes, Q M ^a   Hornby, S T ^a   Stanga, Z ^b   Neal, K R ^a   Rowlands, B J ^a   Allison, S P ^a   Lobo, Dileep N ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Function; Grip strength; Hand grip dynamometry; Nutritional assessment; Posture; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RECUMBENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SITTING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST;

ADULT; ELBOW; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 15344346259     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2004.09.013     Document Type: Article

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