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The Click Test: A Novel Tool to Quantify the Age-Related Decline of Fast Motor Sequencing of the Thumb
- Source :
- Current Aging Science, Current Aging Science, Bentham Science Publishers, 2017, 10 (4), ⟨10.2174/1874609810666170511100318⟩, Current Aging Science, 2017, 10 (4), ⟨10.2174/1874609810666170511100318⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2017.
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Abstract
- International audience; Abstract : Background: The thumb plays a critical role for manual tasks during the activities of daily life and the incidence of neurological or musculoskeletal disorders affecting the voluntary movements of the thumb is high in the elderly. There is currently no tool to assess repetitive motor sequencing of the thumb during ageing.Objectives: To report a novel procedure (the Click Test) assessing the effects of ageing on fast motor sequencing of the thumb.Methods : Healthy subjects (n = 252; mean age +/- SD: 49.76 +/- 19.97 years; range: 19-89 years; F/M: 151/101) were asked to perform fast repeated flexion/extension movements of the thumb using a mechanical counter.Results: Motor performances (assessed by the number of clicks during 3 time periods: 15, 30 and 45 sec), significantly decreased as a function of age for both the dominant (age effect; p< 0.0001 for 15, 30 and 45 sec) and the non-dominant hand (p
- Subjects :
- Male
Aging
Time Factors
Movements
Neuropsychological Tests
Audiology
Functional Laterality
Correlation
0302 clinical medicine
Medicine
Aged, 80 and over
Observer Variation
0303 health sciences
Age Factors
mechanical counter
Repeatability
sequencing
Middle Aged
Test (assessment)
medicine.anatomical_structure
Female
performances
Adult
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Motor Activity
Thumb
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Sex Factors
Cronbach's alpha
Predictive Value of Tests
Age related
Humans
[PHYS.MECA.BIOM]Physics [physics]/Mechanics [physics]/Biomechanics [physics.med-ph]
Geriatric Assessment
Simulation
Aged
030304 developmental biology
Reproducibility
business.industry
Reproducibility of Results
Ageing
ageing
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Linear Models
hand
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18746098
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Aging Science, Current Aging Science, Bentham Science Publishers, 2017, 10 (4), ⟨10.2174/1874609810666170511100318⟩, Current Aging Science, 2017, 10 (4), ⟨10.2174/1874609810666170511100318⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....75b6d781c9e507dcd618f0da0fa7c128