Email this pageQuantitative Myometry
Background: There a number of clinical methods for quantifying muscle strength. The classical method using the five point MRC scale is useful in clinical care settings and when averaged over a large number of muscle groups to give a measure of global clinical severity. However, the MRC is an ordinal scale is and is not suited for quantitative measurement of strength in a single muscle group. Quantitative myometry is currently being used in the Fields Center as a measure of disease severity of the muscle that is being sampled by needle biopsy.
Maximum Isometric Voluntary Contraction Testing (MVICT): (Download PDF file)
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