abstract background: the measurement of hand grip strength has several clinical applications to evaluate chronic hand disability, response to treatment, and work capacity after hand injury. methods: we measured hand grip strength of 41 adults and compared their maximum strength with radiographic indices. results: there was a significant relationship between hand grip strength and carpal height,...

OBJECTIVES To compare the agreement between conventional measurement of blood pressure and measurements obtained using two automated devices; and to compare how comfortable each of the three methods of measurement were for patients. METHODS Blood pressure measurements and patient comfort scores were recorded using three different devices in 125-surgery and 40-community patients. The devices u...

The reliability of blood pressure measurement with wrist devices, which has not previously been assessed under real-life circumstances in general population, is dependent on correct positioning of the wrist device at heart level. We determined whether an error was present when blood pressure was self-measured at the wrist in 721 unselected subjects from the general population. After training, b...

ion (score) −0.80 (0.91) −2.58 to 0.97 0.4 −1.05 (0.60) −2.24 to 0.13 0.1 Digit span (score) 0.72 (1.89) −2.99 to 4.42 0.7 0.73 (1.26) −1.74 to 3.20 0.6 IPM (score) −0.48 (0.91) −2.27 to 1.31 0.6 0.11 (0.61) −1.08 to 1.31 0.9 Education, y 1.78 (1.19) −0.56 to 4.12 0.1 0.36 (0.80) −1.20 to 1.92 0.7 Multiple linear regression. Systolic and diastolic errors as dependent variable, respectively. Age...

Understanding the kinematics of the carpus is essential to the understanding and treatment of wrist pathologies. However, accurate measurement of the kinematics of the carpal bones is difficult because they are small bones undergoing complex movements of small amplitudes. As a result, to date, there is no clear consensus on carpal kinematics. Moreover, most studies only investigate single rotat...

BACKGROUND Wrist blood pressure (BP) devices have physiological limits with regards to accuracy, therefore they were not preferred for home BP monitoring. However some wrist devices have been successfully validated using established validation protocols. Therefore this study assessed the reproducibility of wrist home BP measurement with position sensor and automatic data storage. METHODS To c...

abstract background: radiography is the most widely available imaging modality. precise evaluations of wrist x-ray can help diagnosis and evaluate the prognosis of many wrist disorders. methods: we measured length, angles and indices in 150 posteroanterior and lateral wrist x-rays to determine normal dimensions and variations according to age and sex. all x-rays were made with standard exposure...