摘要 |
FIELD: medicine. ^ SUBSTANCE: method involves using relative characteristics of mechanical force. It comprises two stages of provoking action and recording mechanical force. Patient applies pressure to examiner hand and the examiner resists with submaximum force at the first stage. The examiner applies supramaximum force to patient extremity at the second stage. Recording is carried out with mechanical force transducer. The data are saved in computer and relative parameters of SD/M and dMax/M are calculated and their values are compared to threshold values for given parameters. Conclusions on muscle weakness are drawn using offered criteria, that is, a muscle is considered to be weak if general test time is less than 3 s or dMax/M is lower than its threshold value or SD/M is greater than its threshold value. ^ EFFECT: high reliability of obtained data. ^ 2 cl, 3 dwg, 1 tbl |