How this library is organized
Our Publications
— BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2022
Published Studies
Remote, Reliable, Repeatable: Real-World Test, Retest Validation of Hand Grip Strength Assessments
· Research Square (Preprint)
Remote grip strength assessment with GripAble shows high reliability in real-world settings.
Establishing the reliability and validity for GripAble: A handheld sensor-based dynamometry device
· Hand Therapy
GripAble has excellent test-retest reliability with Jamar.
Test-Retest Reliability and Precision of GripAble, A Multi-Purpose Exergaming Device
· Games for Health Journal
GripAble's reliability to assess maximal hand grip strength is confirmed in controlled contexts.
Interrater Reliability and Precision of a Novel Hand Strength Assessment and Treatment Device: The GripAble
· The American Journal of Occupational Therapy
GripAble offers accuracy and reliability suitable for occupational therapy practitioners.
GripAble: Interrater Reliability and Normative Grip Strength of UK Population
· Journal of Hand Therapy
Normative reference values established for UK adults using GripAble, enabling population-level comparison.
Modernising grip dynamometry: Inter-instrument reliability between GripAble and Jamar
· BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
GripAble has good-to-excellent inter-instrument reliability compared to Jamar Plus+.
GripAble: An Accurate, Sensitive and Robust Digital Device for Measuring Grip Strength
· Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering
GripAble is a highly robust, accurate, reliable grip strength dynamometer for clinical and research use.
Papers on Grip Strength
— Lancet, 2015
Published Studies
Prognostic value of grip strength: findings from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study
· The Lancet
Grip strength was a stronger predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality than systolic blood pressure across 17 countries.
Grip Strength: An Indispensable Biomarker For Older Adults
· Clinical Interventions in Aging
Grip strength is an indispensable biomarker for predicting outcomes in older adults across multiple health domains.
Grip strength and mortality: a biomarker of ageing?
· The Lancet
Grip strength serves as a biomarker of biological aging, predicting mortality across all age groups.
Hand grip strength as a proposed new vital sign of health: a narrative review of evidences
· Journal of Health and Population Nutrition
Grip strength proposed as a new vital sign of health, with evidence supporting its role across the lifespan.
Handgrip strength and health outcomes: Umbrella review of systematic reviews with meta-analyzes of observational studies
· Journal of Sport and Health Science
Comprehensive meta-analysis confirming grip strength predicts cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease and all-cause mortality.
Papers on Falls Prevention
— Cochrane Review, 2023
Published Studies
The STEADI Tool Kit: A Fall Prevention Resource for Health Care Providers
· IHS Prim Care Provid.
The CDC's Injury Center developed the STEADI (Stop Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries) tool kit to combat the rising tsunami of falls-related injury deaths in the US.
World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative
· Age and Ageing
International consensus guideline setting the 3-tier falls risk stratification approach and Grade 1A evidence for gait speed as a screening tool.
Falls: assessment and prevention in older people and in people 50 and over at higher risk
· NICE Guideline NG249
UK clinical guideline. Single screening tools identify only 40–60% of at-risk community-dwelling older adults; multifactorial interventions based on comprehensive assessment reduce fall incidence by 32–40%.
Step Safely: Strategies for the prevention and management of falls across the life-course
· World Health Organization
WHO framework on multifactorial falls prevention. Otago-style exercise and home-hazard interventions reduce fall incidence by up to 32%.
Functional Impairment and Hospital Readmission in Medicare Seniors
· JAMA Internal Medicine
Functionally impaired Medicare seniors had about 42% higher odds of 30-day readmission than unimpaired patients (and up to 70% for certain target conditions)
Functional Impairment: an unmeasured marker of post-acute Medicare costs in seniors
· Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Functionally impaired patients face 77% higher post-discharge costs.
Frailty and cardiovascular outcomes in the National Health and Aging Trends Study
· European Heart Journal
In older Medicare beneficiaries without coronary heart disease, about 63% were pre-frail or frail, and greater frailty was associated with significantly higher healthcare utilization alongside increased cardiovascular and mortality risk.
International depiction of the cost of functional independence limitations among older adults living in the community: a systematic review and cost-of-impairment study
· BMC Geriatrics
Functional independence limitations cost US healthcare $24,195.52 per patient annually.