Peripheral for Quantify Strength of Children Functional During the Pinch Movement

NCT ID: NCT02965352

Last Updated: 2016-11-21

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 30 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2015-06-30
• Study Completion Date: 2015-12-31

Brief Summary

This study has developed a peripheral to quantify the functional strength of children without motor change during the movement of grip and pinch. It was possible to know the exact values of these strengths, the range of motion that was made, and also if the grip strength was maintained during all the arc of motion.

Detailed Description

Since childhood, it has been necessary to produce sufficient force to grip and pinch, for performing daily tasks independently; therefore, measurements of these forces end up being useful markers to evaluate the performance and the physical development of the child. It was developed a peripheral containing three devices and instrumented for analyzing the force applied during execution of the cylindrical grip movement, pinch pulp-side and pinch pulp-pulp in different situations of the daily life of the volunteer. The data acquisition interface was developed in a software for data recording. For the peripheral functionality tests, thirty volunteers of both genders were selected. They were also students of the Sports Secretary, with no motor abnormalities, between seven and ten years old.

Conditions

Hand Strength

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: DIAGNOSTIC
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Hand strength

Volunteers without motor abnormalities. The tests were performed in a single session lasting 30 minutes, when volunteers used the door handle device, the linear switch device, and the door key device, in order to quantify the hand strength.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Door handle device

Intervention Type: DEVICE

To evaluate the cylindrical grip movement, it was used a door handle, which evaluated all the strength at the arc of motion

Linear switch device

Intervention Type: DEVICE

To evaluate the pulp-pulp pinch movement, it was used one linear switch, which evaluated all the strength at the motion displacement.

Door key device

Intervention Type: DEVICE

To evaluate the pulp-side pinch movement, it was used a door key, which evaluated all the strength at the arc of motion

Interventions

Door handle device

To evaluate the cylindrical grip movement, it was used a door handle, which evaluated all the strength at the arc of motion

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Linear switch device

To evaluate the pulp-pulp pinch movement, it was used one linear switch, which evaluated all the strength at the motion displacement.

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Door key device

To evaluate the pulp-side pinch movement, it was used a door key, which evaluated all the strength at the arc of motion

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• change Absence of skeletal muscle in the upper limbs
• neurological disorder Absence
• Informed Consent signed by the responsible
• with preserved cognitive.
• consent form signed by the volunteer

Exclusion Criteria

• Having less than 7 years old
• Having more than 10 years old
• To present some compromise skeletal muscle in the upper limbs
• not take part in the research

• Minimum Eligible Age: 7 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 10 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Mogi das Cruzes

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Silvia Regina M. S. Boschi

PhD

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Silvia R Boschi, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Mogi das Cruzes

Other Identifiers

45883715.9.0000.5497

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id