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Grip strength or hand strength is an anthropometric measurement that measures the maximum isometric strength of the hand and forearm muscles. Understanding a patients hand-grip strength is important for a couple of reasons. In sports, hand grip strength is important in any sport that involves the use of the hands, such as catching, throwing or lifting. Also, as we age our grip strength becomes weaker, which eventually begins to affect the day-to-day tasks we all do. Like the simple tasks of carr …

Physical Therapy programs and/or schools often require their students to get a Physical Therapy (PT) Student Kit. The standard PT Student Kit comes with the following items:  12" 360° Clear Plastic Goniometer6" 180° Clear Plastic GoniometerAbsolute+Axis AttachmentA Taylor Hammer or Reflex HammerPocket Aneroid SphygmomanometerDual-head StethoscopeWoven Measurement Tape24-hour Electric Stopwatch/Watch CombinationA Gait BeltThe standard PT Student Kits are normally 9-piece kits with the …

To assess flexibility of the lower back and hamstring muscles, a sit and reach test is a common measure used by physical therapist. This particular test is an important indicator of tightness in the assessed area that is correlated with lumbar lordosis, forward pelvic tilt and lower back pain. This is a widely used test used as an assessment of flexibility.There are some variations of the sit and reach test. The variations involve the differences in the value of the level of the feet. Using …

Auditory Rhythmic Stimulation is one of the more current treatment methods for gait training. This treatment is also know as auditory rhythmic signaling, and acoustic rhythmic cueing. Using this treatment method involves acoustic rhythms produced by metronomes or music that gives the cadence during walking so patients can synchronize their footsteps with the rhythm that is heard.The gait in patients, as a result of this treatment, increases step length, cadence, and symmetry. It also improves th …

There is seems to be a new emphasis on tracking blood oxygen levels now that smart watches can read this metric right from our wrists or from your finger tip using a pulse oximeter. So why are blood oxygen levels so important? Using a pulse oximeter, the blood oxygen level metric (Sp02) places a numerical value on the amount of oxygen that is circulating in our blood. Oxygen is important for our bodies to function. Oxygen enters our bodies via the mouth and nose then into our lungs and …