Force Coordination in Object Manipulation

• Authors: Paulo de Freitas , Vennila Krishnan , Slobodan Jaric
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Purpose: The purpose of this review is to present our recent findings related to the studies of hand function based on the coordination of forces exerted against hand-held objects.Basic procedures: A novel device has been developed for recording grip (GF; acting perpendicularly at the hand-object contact) and load force (LF; acting tangentially) during uni- and bimanual manipulation tasks performed under either static or dynamic conditions. Both healthy participants and neurological patients were tested. The outcome measures were obtained from the task performance (i.e., the ability to exert accurate LF profiles), GF-LF coordination and GF modulation.Main findings: The method applied proved to not only to be both reliable and valid, but also sufficient to detect differences between the dominant and non-dominant hand, as well as between healthy participants and mildly involved neurological patients. Marked differences in most of the depended variables were also detected between unidirectional and bi-direction tasks (i.e., in the tasks where LF acts in one and in two alternating directions). The later finding could not be based neural mechanisms known for their role in manipulative actions, such as on employing ad hoc muscle synergies or on the afferent activity of skin mechanoreceptors.Conclusions: The employed methodological approach can be applied not only to explore various manipulation activities, but also to serve as a basis for future development of specific clinical tests for populations that demonstrate impaired hand function.

Keywords

EN

hand; function; grasp; grip; load; test

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Journal of Human Kinetics
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 20
• Pages: 37-50

Dates

published

1 - 1 - 2008

online

13 - 1 - 2009

Contributors

author

Paulo de Freitas

• Department of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences, University of Delaware, 547 S. College Ave, Newark, DE 19711, USA

author

Vennila Krishnan

author

Slobodan Jaric

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10078-008-0016-8