Reliability of forearm skin thermal assessment during handgrip exercise

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2019

Authors

Carolina Magalhães (Author) Other; Pedro Silva (Author) Other; Ricardo Vardasca (Author) FEUP; Paulo Abreu (Author) FEUP; Joaquim Mendes (Author) Other; Maria Teresa Restivo (Author) FEUP

Book

Title: Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health

Pages: 447-455

ISBN: 978-3-030-14729-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-14730-3

Publisher: Springer

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Authenticus ID: P-00Q-8MN

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14730-3_48

Abstract (EN): Handgrip force test has been used to provide important occupational health indicators about worker¿s senescence and upper limbs physiological condition. Although, these indicators are mostly based in mechanical assessments, providing maximum force and accumulated work, there is also internal physiological energy spent in handgrip exercising that can be re-motely measured through infrared thermal imaging (IRT). This research aims to assess the reliability of IRT measurements, when performed by different operators. IRT images of 13 participants¿ forearm were taken during the performance of a gripping test. Three different regions of interest were defined for thermal measurements and analyzed by two recently trained observers. The results were statistically assessed, through student t-test, kappa analysis, Interclass Correlation Coefficient, Bland-Altman limits of agreement and Spearman correlation. It has shown evidence of reliability and data consistency, meaning that the proposed methodology is reproducible for performing regular occupational medicine handgrip assessments in daily practice. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 9