The BE-UJI hand function activity set: a reduced set of activities for the evaluation of the healthy and pathological hand.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hand kinematics during hand function tests based on the performance of activities of daily living (ADLs) can provide objective data to determine patients' functional loss. However, they are rarely used during clinical assessments because of their long duration. Starting with the 20 Sollerman Hand Function Test (SHFT) tasks, we propose identifying a reduced set of ADLs that provides similar kinematic information to the original full set in terms of synergies, ranges of motion and velocities.

Methods

We followed an iterative method with the kinematics of 16 hand joints while performing the 20 ADLs of the SHFT. For each subject, ADLs were ordered according to their influence on the synergies obtained by means of a principal component analysis, the minimum number of A

SUBMITTER: Jarque-Bou NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10514972 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature