title: [Progress on the evaluation of limbs muscle function].
abstract: Evaluation of limbs muscle function is one of the difficult tasks in forensic clinical medicine. Recently, there are more and more cases needed to be evaluated on the limbs muscle function in forensic clinical appraisal. Thus the assessment methods for muscle function have been concerned increasingly. This paper introduces the classification of muscle function and the type of muscle contraction, reviews the assessment methods for muscle function and their application value, such as manual muscle test, simple instrumental muscle test, isokinetic muscle test and electrophysiological test. It has also proposed to evaluate the muscle function with multiple methods comprehensively.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, PR China, Shanghai 200063, China. xiaqing0128@126.com
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: Li-Xin
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Li-Hua
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Fan
mesh_terms: D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D004576:Electromyography / Q000379:methods; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000379:methods*; D005121:Extremities / Q000502:physiology*; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007537:Isometric Contraction / Q000502:physiology; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000502:physiology*; D053580:Muscle Strength / Q000502:physiology; D009129:Muscle Tonus; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000502:physiology*; D009132:Muscles / Q000502:physiology