Validating the Cambridge Protocol: Reliability of Hip Muscle Strength Measurements Using a Motorized Dynamometer and Electromyography.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Muscle weakness is common after injury in athletes and in the presence of hip pathology. It will cause abnormal hip biomechanics and can predict future injury. However, objective measurement of hip muscle strength is difficult to perform accurately and reliably. Therefore, it is challenging to determine when an athlete has returned to preinjury levels of strength. In addition, there is currently no standardized method of obtaining measurements, which prevents the data being compared or shared between research centers.

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to comprehensively assess the inter- and intraobserver reliability of our standardized muscle strength measurement protocol.

Study design

Descriptive laboratory study.

Level of evidence

Level 3, ince

SUBMITTER: Memarzadeh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9460091 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature