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ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION
Volume 88, Issue 1, Pages 32-36Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2006.10.002
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muscles; pulmonary disease; chronic obstructive; rehabilitation; reliability and validity
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Objective: To evaluate the retest reliability and quantify the degree of measurement error when measuring isometric muscle strength with a hand-held dynamometer for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Design: Retest reliability of hand-held dynamometry for 4 muscle groups was assessed on 2 occasions separated by a 2-week interval. Setting: Community rehabilitation center. Participants: Eight men and 4 women (mean age +/- standard deviation, 71.4 +/- 10.3y) with moderately severe COPD (percentage of predicted forced expiratory volume in 1 second, 41.5%+/- 17.7%). Interventions: Not applicable. Main Outcome Measures: Muscle strength (in kilograms). Statistical analysis was conducted by calculating intraclass correlation coefficients and 95% confidence intervals for both group and individual scores. Results: All reliability coefficients were greater than .79. Muscle strength would need to increase by between 4% and 18% in groups of people with COPD and between 34% and 58% in a person with COPD to be 95% confident of detecting real changes. Conclusions: Hand-held dynamometry is suitable for monitoring change in muscle strength and testing hypotheses for groups of people with COPD. However, hand-held dynamometry is not likely to detect changes in muscle strength for a person with COPD.
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