Associations between Handgrip Strength and Ultrasound-Measured Muscle Thickness of the Hand and Forearm in Young Men and Women

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2125-2130

  Abe, Takashi ^a   Counts, Brittany R ^a   Barnett, Brian E ^a   Dankel, Scott J ^a   Lee, Kofan ^a   Loenneke, Jeremy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

B Mode ultrasound; Maximum strength hand muscles

Indexed keywords

ULTRASONICS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HAND MUSCLES; MUSCLE SIZE; MUSCLE THICKNESS; YOUNG ADULTS;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BONES OF THE ARM AND HAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS FOREARM; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREARM MUSCLE; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MUSCLE; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMBRICAL INTEROSSEOUS FOREARM; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE THICKNESS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; ULNA; ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FOREARM; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930539999     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.04.004     Document Type: Article

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