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Grip strength was assessed using the Grip-ball dynamometer for twenty-one subjects (11 men and 10 women). Five different verbal feedback conditions were tested: no visual feedback (NVF), non-quantified visual feedback (IVF), accurate visual feedback (CVF), and both over-estimated (OVF) and under-estimated (OVF) visual feedback. In the latter three conditions, subjects were presented with a target force to strive for. Significantly greater grip strength was observed for the CVF condition in comparison with the NVF and IVF conditions (6% increase for both comparisons, p<0.05). No other significant differences were observed. The magnitude of the differences suggests that visual feedback could be of clinical relevance when maximal grip strength testing is performed.
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Chkeir, A., Jaber, R., Hewson, D.J., Hogrel, J.Y., Duchêne, J. (2014). Effect of Different Visual Feedback Conditions on Maximal Grip-Strength Assessment. In: Roa Romero, L. (eds) XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 41. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00846-2_279
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