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Exergame for Continuous and Transparent Monitoring of Handgrip Strength and Endurance

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Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III (ICNR 2018)

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Abstract

Grip Strength reduction is a marker of the age-related functional decline. The present work developed an exergame to continuously and transparently monitor handgrip strength and endurance in older persons. The game was tested on ten young adults reporting positive results, both in terms of usability and correlation with clinical standards, thus representing a promising, non-intrusive tool to help detecting early signs of frailty in community-dwelling older persons.

The work is supported by the European H2020 project Movecare grant ICT-26-2016b – GA 732158.

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  1. Nearlab of the Electronics, Information and Bioengineering Department, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Francesca Lunardini, Federico Matteo & Simona Ferrante

  2. Department of Clinical and Community Sciences, University of Milano, Milan, Italy

    Matteo Cesari

  3. AISlab of Department of Computer Science, University of Milano, Milan, Italy

    Nunzio A. Borghese

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Correspondence to Francesca Lunardini .

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  1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Lorenzo Masia

  2. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Translational Neural Engineering Area, The BioRobotics Institute, Pisa, Italy

    Silvestro Micera

  3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, TX, USA

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  4. Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

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Lunardini, F., Matteo, F., Cesari, M., Borghese, N.A., Ferrante, S. (2019). Exergame for Continuous and Transparent Monitoring of Handgrip Strength and Endurance. In: Masia, L., Micera, S., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III. ICNR 2018. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01845-0_119

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