BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to determine the utility of handgrip dynamometry (HGD) in predicting short term mortality and complications in alcoholic liver disease. METHODS Patients with alcoholic liver disease were included and nutritional assessment was done using the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA), HGD and other conventional parameters. Mortality rates and complications were com...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to conduct a comparative analysis on isokinetic strength assessments between field and indoor male professional soccer players and correlate the findings with the higher levels of injury risk described in the literature. METHODS We analyzed 16 field soccer players and 15 indoor soccer players. All these professionals were male. Isokinetic muscle stren...

Isokinetic dynamometers may provide a useful means of measuring muscle stiffness resulting from eccentric exercise because they can measure torque from computer-controlled passive movements of joints (passive resistive torque; PRT). In this study, a Biodex measured increased ankle PRT (52%; p <.001) following heel drop exercise in nine young women. Therefore, isokinetic dynamometers can provide...

Canoe sprint is a water sport (under natural conditions, it takes place on water); therefore, for the most part, research carried out under laboratory when load performed various special exercise machines (ergometers) that try to simulate conditions as closely possible since doing in very challenging. However, technological development and recently available specific devices allow go forward ov...

The aim of this study was threefold (1) to assess the reliability three upper-extremity performance tests: a countermovement push up, press jump and drop box land, performed on set dual-force plates (2) examine whether there an association between isokinetic dynamometry tests in non-injured cohort collision/contact athletes (3) establish normal descriptive profile vertical ground reaction force...