Quantitative assessment of finger motor performance: Normative data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Finger opposition movements are the basis of many daily living activities and are essential in general for manipulating objects; an engineered glove quantitatively assessing motor performance during sequences of finger opposition movements has been shown to be useful to provide reliable measures of finger motor impairment, even subtle, in subjects affected by neurological diseases. However, the obtained behavioral parameters lack published reference values.

Objective

To determine mean values for different motor behavioral parameters describing the strategy adopted by healthy people in performing repeated sequences of finger opposition movements, examining associations with gender and age.

Methods

Normative values for finger motor performance parameters were

SUBMITTER: Signori A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5646860 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature