Reproducibility of performance and certainty of judgment in maximal vs feigned muscular effort.
Detection of feigned muscular effort is a highly challenging topic in the medicolegal arena. Modern dynamometric methods have enabled a much higher accuracy in deciding whether the effort in question is indeed genuine or submaximal. Since in feigning the target, however, performance may fluctuate even within a single testing session, reproducibility cannot be assured. In actual claims, the statistical nature of certainty in proclaiming a feigned effort must be well understood by those involved in deciding the fate of a claim.
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Department of Physical Therapy, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel. zdvir@post.tau.ac.il
D008192:Deception; D016552:Ergometry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008306:Malingering / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000502:physiology*; D009141:Musculoskeletal System / Q000293:injuries*; D005082:Physical Exertion / Q000502:physiology*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis