Itoh S, Tanikawa H, Kondo H, Ozeki S, Ito T, Fujimura K, et al. Minimal Detectable Change in Muscle Strength Measurements Obtained Using a Hand-Held Dynamometer in Patients with Stroke. Japanese journal of comprehensive rehabilitation science. 2025;16:9. DOI 10.11336/jjcrs.16.9
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DOI: 10.11336/jjcrs.16.9
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Itoh S, Tanikawa H, Kondo H, Ozeki S, Ito T, Fujimura K, et al. Minimal Detectable Change in Muscle Strength Measurements Obtained Using a Hand-Held Dynamometer in Patients with Stroke. Japanese journal of comprehensive rehabilitation science. 2025;16:9. DOI 10.11336/jjcrs.16.9 Source examined: Full text. Europe PMC; same-day repeatability.
Conditions: COND-STROKE Stroke
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Stroke
42 intra-rater/12 inter-rater; two 3-second same-day efforts, practice and sensor replacement; excludes no-movement patients in reliability. ICC and six MDC numbers are transcribed correctly. However Equation 1 specifies MDC 95=1.96×SDd and Table 4 prints ankle dorsiflexion difference SD 0.10 N/kg with MDC 95 0.15. Printed SD implies about 0.196, and ordinary rounding cannot reconcile this. Table 3 headings are reversed; abstract inter-rater minimum .886 omits the .874 hip-abduction value in Results/Table 3.
Source locator: Methods Equation 1; Table 4 ankle dorsiflexion row; Table 3; limitations
Limitations: No raw data; correction clarifies the report’s existing generic warning about tabulated values. The recalculation is an audit check, not a replacement patient threshold.
Reports citing this source
- Strength muscle power and rapid force production assessment after stroke · reference 28 · original reference
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