title: [The evaluation of the Artem grip in its function assessment].
abstract: The aim of our study is to assess the Artem pincers efficiency, which is both a new grip strength instrument and a hand reeducation instrument. It is original through its pleasant good looking and it offers many different programs of use. This study was carried out involving 60 healthy subjects. We compared the Artem system with two other measurement instruments of reference (Jamar for grip strength and Pinch-Gauge for pinch strength). With this Artem system we also studied two other originals tests: 1) Evolution of hand and finger strength within 15 seconds. 2) Tiredness test. Our measurements demonstrated good high correlation and high reliability between reference instruments and Artem system dealing with strength measurements. We can't conclude about the two original program's statistics, but it would probably be interesting to compare these with a group of patients in course of reeducation.
authors.affiliation: Unité de chirurgie de la main et des brûles, CHU de Grenoble.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Aveque
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mugnier
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jeay
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Moutet
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004867:Equipment Design; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000502:physiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000502:physiology; D018763:Muscle Fatigue / Q000502:physiology; D011403:Pronation; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012399:Rotation; D012737:Sex Factors; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013484:Supination; D013997:Time Factors; D014953:Wrist / Q000502:physiology