(n.) An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Equal bilateral skin tension at the suture line, checked with a spring dynamometer, resulted in a marked increase in the amount of skin excised on the presutured side.
(2) The retentive force was measured with a dynamometer.
(3) Isokinetic dynamometers are passive devices which resist applied forces and control the speed of exercise at a predetermined rate.
(4) Body composition was assessed by skinfold measurement and strength measured by dynamometer.
(5) Experimental trials involved maximal leg extensions performed on a Cybex II dynamometer under conditions of euhydration and hypohydration of minus 3% body weight.
(6) The purpose of this paper is to describe a method for measuring and recording static and dynamic external rotation of the glenohumeral joint using the Cybex II Isokinetic Dynamometer and an MFE model 815 X-Y plotter.
(7) The torque forces of elbow extensor musculature of 28 men were tested with an isokinetic dynamometer to determine the relationships between maximal isokinetic torque generated at various speeds and maximal isometric forces at specified angles in the arc of elbow extension.
(8) A review of related literature and trends was used to develop a protocol for testing range of motion, isometric strength, velocity, endurance, and consistency of effort in the low-back pain (LBP) population by the use of the triaxial, Isostation B-200 Lumbar Dynamometer.
(9) Comprised of four octagonal half strain rings, the strain gage dynamometer measures the three moment load components at the boot.
(10) Hip, knee, and ankle joint muscular strength were assessed on a Cybex Leg Press Dynamometer.
(11) Strength and endurance, tested by the Cybex-II isokinetic dynamometer, showed no significant difference between operated and healthy extremity.
(12) Maximum isometric and isokinetic strength of knee extension was measured in 15 patients and 15 healthy matched subjects, using an isokinetic dynamometer (Cybex II).
(13) All subjects were instructed to react to the sudden forward movement of the input arm of the Kin-Com Isokinetic Dynamometer with contraction of the hamstring.
(14) The muscle strength of 11 muscle groups was measured with a hand-held dynamometer.
(15) Eleven subjects squeezed an electronic dynamometer, at each of three force levels, with both their right and left hands.
(16) Selected strength measures were obtained from a Cybex II isokinetic dynamometer at 30 degrees sec-1.
(17) The independent variables were elbow-extensor muscle tone (graded using the Modified Ashworth Scale); active elbow-flexion range-of-motion deficit measured without the influence of gravity; and elbow-flexion strength measured without the influence of gravity with a hand-held dynamometer.
(18) This retrospective study was undertaken to determine the test-retest reliability of hand-held dynamometer strength testing for 18 extremity muscle groups.
(19) After the dynamometer had been set to the position at which the patient had previously achieved maximal grip strength, the patient was instructed to rapidly alternate hands while gripping the dynamometer.
(20) Determine test-retest reliability, normative data and clinical validity of isometric muscle strength testing in the neck with a modified sphygmomanometer dynamometer (MSD).
Dynamometry
Definition:
(n.) The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was concluded that dynamometry gave an accurate description of motor blockade induced by spinal anaesthesia.
(2) Handgrip dynamometry was also carried out in 249 of the patients.
(3) During dynamometry, knee flexors and extensors were bilaterally assessed at 1.04 and 3.14 rad.s-1.
(4) The relationship between experimentally induced intraocular lens (IOL) haptic deformation and resulting elastic haptic counter-resisting forces measured by electronic dynamometry was examined for 34 different IOL haptics of varying material composition and geometrical designs.
(5) We have measured GS (by hand dynamometry), total body protein (indirectly by mid-arm muscle circumference, and directly by in vivo neutron activation analysis) and the proportion of protein loss (protein index) in 80 patients with gastrointestinal disease and 87 normal volunteers.
(6) The differences between the patients were evaluated by means of clinical muscle force testing, EMG, dynamometry (ulnar and median nerve lesions), computer tomography (ulnar nerve lesions) and ultrasonography (median and peroneal nerve lesions).
(7) Hand grip dynamometry fell with age (r = 0,69 men; r = 0,57 women), although the correlation was only statistically significant in women (P less than 0,05).
(8) It is concluded that manual dynamometry is an acceptable procedure for the patient-initiated method and is not acceptable for the doctor-initiated method.
(9) Manual dynamometry does not permit revealing early stages of heart insufficiency.
(10) In a randomized, prospective double blind trial evaluating antibiotic prophylaxis for internal fixation of proximal femur fractures, the prognostic value of preoperative risk parameters, namely triceps skinfold, upper arm circumference, dynamometry, serum albumin, transferrin, prealbumin, lymphocyte count and serum zinc was analyzed.
(11) In arteriotonography the point of pressure measurement is more central than in suction cup dynamometry, because of the different method of increasing intraocular pressure in each procedure.
(12) Pins were inserted into each sacral vertebra, and the forces needed to extract them from the bone were measured by computerized dynamometry.
(13) Differences between both eyes in one individual were on the average greater using the SAT than the Mikuni instrument (P less than 0.001) and suction cup dynamometry was tolerated better subjectively than ophthalmic arteriotonography.
(14) Isometric grip strength was assessed by dynamometry.
(15) Strength and muscular endurance of the quadriceps and hamstrings were tested by isokinetic dynamometry.
(16) Although the interrater reliability of the procedure was found to be good to high in the six muscle groups tested, the results of the t tests indicate that hand-held dynamometry should undergo further evaluation.
(17) Grip and back strength were measured by isometric dynamometry.
(18) The knee extension force of 50 patients was investigated using traditional manual muscle testing and hand-held dynamometry.
(19) The forearm muscle dynamometry has greater positive predictive value (58.33 vs 32.4%), higher sensitivity (77.78 vs 66.6%), and specificity (86.11 vs 65.28%) than the prognostic nutritional index.
(20) In spite of the advantages that isokinetic dynamometry provides, there are a number of considerations that are important in the interpretation of force recordings.