Mastering the use of hand-held dynamometry in clinical practice.

WHAT IT FOUND

A teaching article on choosing and using hand-held dynamometers, not a study.

It reports no patients and no outcomes of its own, so there is nothing here that changes what you do on Monday.

What this paper is

This is a Masterclass article, a teaching piece on how to choose a hand-held dynamometer and how to use one to measure muscle strength and rate of force development. It reports no patients, no interventions and no outcomes of its own; the guidance comes from the author's reasoning and from other published studies the article points to. There is no finding here to act on, though the article does give practical detail on sampling frequency, force-onset thresholds and measurement error that you may want to check against your own equipment.

Summarised by AI from the full paper, without a clinician reviewing it. Check it against the source before it changes what you do. Read it on PubMed →