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Factors affecting grip force: anatomy, mechanics, and referent configurations.
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- Multi-Frequency Electrical Impedance Myography as a Predictor of Muscle Function in Older Adults.Muscle & nerve · 2025Article
- Associations between structural injury and task-based corticomuscular connectivity after stroke.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Handy divisions: Hand-specific specialization of prehensile control in bimanual tasks.PloS one · 2025Article
- Force drifts and matching errors in the lower extremities: implications for the control and perception of foot force.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Direct Prosthesis Force Control with Tactile Feedback May Connect with the Internal Model.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Optical Myography-Based Sensing Methodology of Application of Random Loads to Muscles during Hand-Gripping Training.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Controversial Relationship between Body Mass Index and Handgrip Strength in the Elderly: An Overview.The Malaysian journal of medical sciences : MJMS · 2023Review
- Unintentional force drifts in the lower extremities.Experimental brain research · 2023Article
- Unintentional drifts in performance during one-hand and two-hand finger force production.Experimental brain research · 2023Article
- Normative reference values and predicting factors of handgrip strength for dominant and non-dominant hands among healthy Malay adults in Malaysia.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
- The effect of index finger distal interphalangeal joint arthrodesis on muscle forces and adjacent joint contact pressures.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2022Article
- Effect of pinch types on pinch force sense in healthy adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Effects of Forearm Compression Sleeves on Muscle Hemodynamics and Muscular Strength and Endurance Parameters in Sports Climbing: A Randomized, Controlled Crossover Trial.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Reproducibility and agreement between three positions for handgrip assessment.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The type of visual biofeedback influences maximal handgrip strength and activation strategies.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Article
- Unintentional drifts during quiet stance and voluntary body sway.Experimental brain research · 2017Article
- Optimality and stability of intentional and unintentional actions: I. Origins of drifts in performance.Experimental brain research · 2017Article
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Abstract
The extrinsic digit muscles naturally couple wrist action and grip force in prehensile tasks. We explored the effects of wrist position on the steady-state grip force and grip-force change during imposed changes in the grip aperture [apparent stiffness (AS)]. Subjects held an instrumented handle steady using a prismatic five-digit grip. The grip aperture was changed slowly, while the subjects were instructed not to react voluntarily to these changes. An increase in the aperture resulted in an increase in grip force, and its contraction resulted in a proportional drop in grip force. The AS values (between 4 and 6 N/cm) were consistent across a wide range of wrist positions. These values were larger when the subjects performed the task with eyes open as compared to eyes-closed trials. They were also larger for trials that started from a larger initial aperture. After a sequence of aperture increase and decrease to the initial width, grip force dropped by about 25% without the subjects being aware of this. We interpret the findings within the referent configuration hypothesis of grip-force production. The results support the idea of back-coupling between the referent and actual digit coordinates. According to this idea, the central nervous system defines referent coordinates for the digit tips, and the difference between the referent and actual coordinates leads to force production. If actual coordinates are not allowed to move to referent ones, referent coordinates show a relatively slow drift toward the actual ones.
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