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Gary Guerra
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Digital Commons at St. Mary's University
Publication Date
2025
Keywords
Biomechanical analysis; artificial intelligence ; hand dynamometer;
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Biomechanical analysis offers a way of better understanding the mechanism of a person's movement pattern or functional decline. Usually, motion analysis is costly and requires the purchase of a lot of equipment and software. This makes the technology out of reach of students, educators and researchers in austere settings.
Fortunately, artificial intelligence has brought affordability to motion analysis and created a whole new method of analyzing functional performance. OpenCap is an application which was produced by Stanford University and is hailed as being a future replacement to higher costing systems. Gait analysis provides an indication of a person's walking symmetry and walking rate. All of which are related to lifelong health (Falisse et al, 2025).
Likewise, hand grip strength is closely related to functional capacity or decline. A higher grip strength is associated with lifelong health. Typically, a hand dynamometer is used to measure a person's hand grip strength, these are usually several hundred dollars. Fortunately, a newer lower costing tool was validated to be as accurate as the more expensive type (Vaishya et al 2024)
Thus, the purpose of this study was to use low-cost technology to identify potential associations in older and younger adults.
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San Antonio, Texas
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