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Assessment Of Force Coordination And Neuromuscular Quickness In Healthy Adults, Karen L. Haberland
Assessment Of Force Coordination And Neuromuscular Quickness In Healthy Adults, Karen L. Haberland
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Throughout daily life, it is necessary to handle and control innumerable objects. To do so, one’s hands must be precisely regulated. To ensure that an object is effectively manipulated, an individual must apply a grip force (GF) perpendicular to the object’s surface to overcome load force (LF), which acts tangential to the surface to counteract the object’s weight and inertia. Previous studies have shown an elaborate coordination between GF and LF in a variety of object manipulation tasks in healthy populations. This kinetic analysis is clinically important because the GF-LF coordination is shown to deteriorate in aging and neurologically impaired …