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Measuring Intrinsic Hand Strength

 

With the combination of a peg board and a force transducer, a Rice bioengineering senior design team is immobilizing hands of varying sizes and morphologies to allow for the precise measurement of intrinsic hand strength. Intrinsic hand strength is an important diagnostic for physicians as it is an indicator for carpal tunnel, spinal bifida....