Investigation of Forces Imposed Upon the Wrist During Activities of Daily Living

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Nowak ◽  
Christina J. Rideout ◽  
Mary L. Newport
Keyword(s):  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Contact Forces ◽  
Wrist Injuries ◽  
Repetitive Loading ◽  
Hand Contact ◽  
Rate Of Loading ◽  
Push Up

Abstract Injury to the wrist commonly results from a traumatic blow or repetitive loading. The effects that these incidents have upon the wrist depend primarily upon the magnitude of force, the point of application, the direction of application, and the rate of loading. Most repetitive loading injuries occur in athletes (Rettig and Patel, 1995). However, concern has been growing among clinicians about wrist injuries caused by repetitive loading that occurs during activities of daily living (ADL) (Malchaire et al., 1996). The purpose of this research was to investigate the amount of force applied to the wrist during various ADL. Hand contact forces were measured while subjects pushed on a door handle, did a standard push-up, and used their arms to help stand from a chair.

scholarly journals Glenohumeral Contact Forces and Muscle Forces Evaluated in Wheelchair-Related Activities of Daily Living in Able-Bodied Subjects Versus Subjects With Paraplegia and Tetraplegia

2005 ◽  
Vol 86 (7) ◽  
pp. 1434-1440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan van Drongelen ◽  
Lucas H. van der Woude ◽  
Thomas W. Janssen ◽  
Edmond L. Angenot ◽  
Edward K. Chadwick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Contact Forces ◽  
Muscle Forces

scholarly journals Dataset of Tactile Signatures of the Human Right Hand in Twenty-One Activities of Daily Living Using a High Spatial Resolution Pressure Sensor

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 2594
Author(s):  
Javier Cepriá-Bernal ◽  
Antonio Pérez-González
Keyword(s):  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Pressure Sensor ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Grip Force ◽  
High Spatial Resolution ◽  
Contact Forces ◽  
Human Hand ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Effective Use

Successful grasping with multi-fingered prosthetic or robotic hands remains a challenge to be solved for the effective use of these hands in unstructured environments. To this end, currently available tactile sensors need to improve their sensitivity, robustness, and spatial resolution, but a better knowledge of the distribution of contact forces in the human hand in grasping tasks is also necessary. The human tactile signatures can inform models for an efficient control of the artificial hands. In this study we present and analyze a dataset of tactile signatures of the human hand in twenty-one representative activities of daily living, obtained using a commercial high spatial resolution pressure sensor. The experiments were repeated for twenty-two subjects. The whole dataset includes more than one hundred million pressure data. The effect of the task and the subject on the grip force and the contribution to this grip force made by the different hand regions were analyzed. We also propose a method to effectively synchronize the measurements from different subjects and a method to represent the tactile signature of each task, highlighting the hand regions mainly involved in the task. The correlations between hand regions and between different tasks were also analyzed.

Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living

1963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Katz ◽  
Amasa B. Ford ◽  
Roland W. Moskowitz ◽  
Beverly A. Jackson ◽  
Marjorie W. Jaffe
Keyword(s):  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Daily Living

Nutritional status, activities of daily living and physical activity in aged residents in 10 German nursing homes*

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Bai ◽  
S Lesser ◽  
S Paker-Eichelkraut ◽  
S Overzier ◽  
S Strathmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Daily Living
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