Progress on the evaluation of limbs muscle function
Xia, Q.; Wang, L.-X.; Fan, L.-H.
Fa Yi Xue Za Zhi 27(4): 290-294
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 1004-5619 PMID: 21913562 Document Number: 653293
Evaluation of limbs muscle function is one of the difficult tasks in forensic clinical medicine. Recently, there are more and more cases needed to be evaluated on the limbs muscle function in forensic clinical appraisal. Thus the assessment methods for muscle function have been concerned increasingly. This paper introduces the classification of muscle function and the type of muscle contraction, reviews the assessment methods for muscle function and their application value, such as manual muscle test, simple instrumental muscle test, isokinetic muscle test and electrophysiological test. It has also proposed to evaluate the muscle function with multiple methods comprehensively.