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Despite 32% of subjects reporting subjective weakness (24% in group A, 36% in group D, and 42% in group C), none of the subjects had proximal weakness or significant distal weakness during clinical examination.
Grip strength in older adults: test-retest reliability and cutoff for subjective weakness of using the hands in heavy tasks.
Corticobasal syndrome (CBS) is a kind of tauopathy with parkinsonism presenting chronic onset of progressive unilateral motor impairment, including subjective weakness, dystonia and parkinsonism, and cognition change, such as apraxia, sensory-motor dysfunction or memory impairment.
Thirteen patients suffered from mild affections with only occasional paraesthesia and numbness in the 4th and 5th fingers, particularly during elbow flexion; four presented with intermittent numbness or paraesthesias in the 4th and 5th fingers and additionally subjective weakness and/or clumsiness in the hand and were considered as moderately affected.
The follow-up consisted of a questionnaire (Fig. 1) addressing subjective symptoms from the ulnar nerve, such as occasional or constant numbness or paraesthesias in the 4th and 5th finger of the hand of the operated elbow; furthermore, experience of subjective weakness and clumsiness in the actual hand; and whether or not the fingers in question went numb in connection with elbow flexion.
Class II patients have subjective weakness with hyperreflexia and dyssthesias.
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Patients with schizophrenia have a reduced aerobic capacity [ 1, 2] and report subjective muscle weakness [ 3].
A statistically significant correlation was found between subjective perception of weakness measured by INQoL weakness subscale and measures of muscle strength (MMRC) for all groups of patients [muscle weakness vs. MMRC: R = −0.33 (−0.53; −0.09), P = 0.008].
Subjective rating of weakness is also included in some of the patient-oriented outcome measures, for example the Symptom Severity Scale of the Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire [ 7] (Do you have weakness in your hand or wrist?), however the focus of this review was to compare performance based outcome measures of muscle weakness.
The complaints of pain in all dominant upper limbs, and subjective complaints of weakness and numbness/tingling in most of them, were reflected by a rather uniform pattern of strength-reductions, mechanical allodynia, and sensory deviations from normal suggesting the involvement of the brachial plexus at chord level and of the posterior interosseous and median nerves at elbow level.
The young normal eyes of the control group had OSI values below 1, while the OSI for subjects in LOCS grade II were around 1 to 2. The use of the objective index showed some of the weakness of subjective classification schemes.
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