{"id":30690,"date":"2021-04-22T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=30690"},"modified":"2021-04-22T07:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T06:01:17","slug":"hand-grip-strength-fatigability-suitability-in-me-cfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/hand-grip-strength-fatigability-suitability-in-me-cfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand grip strength & fatigability: correlation with clinical parameters & diagnostic suitability in ME\/CFS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hand grip strength and fatigability: correlation with clinical parameters and diagnostic suitability in ME\/CFS<\/a>, by Bianka J\u00e4kel, Claudia Kedor, Patricia Grabowski, Kirsten Wittke, Silvia Thiel, Nadja Scherbakov, Wolfram Doehner, Carmen Scheibenbogen & Helma Freitag in<\/span>\u00a0Journal of Translational Medicine<\/em> vol 19, article no: 159 (2021)<\/h3>\n

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Research abstract:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis\/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME\/CFS) is a complex and debilitating disease accompanied by muscular fatigue and pain. A functional measure to assess muscle fatigability of ME\/CFS patients is, however, not established in clinical routine. The aim of this study is to evaluate by assessing repeat maximum handgrip \"handstrength<\/a> (HGS), muscle fatigability as a diagnostic tool and its correlation with clinical parameters.<\/p>\n

Methods<\/strong><\/p>\n

We assessed the HGS of 105 patients with ME\/CFS, 18 patients with Cancer related fatigue (CRF) and 66 healthy controls (HC) using an electric dynamometer assessing maximal (Fmax) and mean force (Fmean) of ten repetitive measurements. Results were correlated with clinical parameters,\u00a0 (LDH<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Further, maximum isometric quadriceps<\/a> strength measurement was conducted in eight ME\/CFS patients and eight HC.<\/p>\n

Results<\/strong><\/p>\n

ME\/CFS patients have a significantly lower Fmax and Fmean HGS compared to HC (p\u2009<\u20090.0001). Further, Fatigue Ratio assessing decline in strength during repeat maximal HGS measurement (Fmax\/Fmean) was higher (p\u2009\u2264\u20090.0012). The Recovery Ratio after an identical second testing 60 min later was significantly lower in ME\/CFS compared to HC (Fmean2\/Fmean1; p\u2009\u2264\u20090.0020). Lower HGS parameters correlated with severity of disease, post-exertional malaise and muscle pain and with higher CK<\/a> and LDH<\/a> levels after exertion.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Repeat HGS assessment is a sensitive diagnostic test to assess muscular fatigue and fatigability and an objective measure to assess disease severity in ME\/CFS.<\/p>\n

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Conclusion<\/strong>
\nHGS measurement is a simple diagnostic tool to assess the severity of muscle fatigue in ME\/CFS. Repeat HGS assessment further allows to objectively assess fatigability and impaired recovery. Advantages of HGS measurement are easy handling, low cost and the low risk of causing PEM. Thus, it can be implemented easily in both primary care and research as an objective outcome parameter in clinical studies and drug development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hand grip strength and fatigability: correlation with clinical parameters and diagnostic suitability in ME\/CFS, by Bianka J\u00e4kel, Claudia Kedor, Patricia Grabowski, Kirsten Wittke, Silvia Thiel, Nadja Scherbakov, Wolfram Doehner, Carmen Scheibenbogen & Helma Freitag in\u00a0Journal of Translational Medicine vol 19, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6724,4267,6727,6725,805,4715,6120,6723,2556,6726,6722,5725],"class_list":["post-30690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bianka-jakel","tag-carmen-scheibenbogen","tag-ck","tag-claudia-kedor","tag-creatinine-kinase-levels","tag-hand-grip-strength","tag-helma-freitag","tag-kirsten-wittke","tag-lactate-dehydrogenase-pathway","tag-ldh","tag-silvia-thiel","tag-wolfram-doehner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-7Z0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30693,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30690\/revisions\/30693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}