Patent ID: 6231525
Filing Date: 2001-05-15
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A system for objective, repeatable, non-invasive analysis of a person's hand and/or wrist to determine the presence or absence of neural, muscular, soft tissue, bone or joint damage thereto, said system comprising:three or more force members one of which is engageable by the thumb of said person's hand and two of which are engageable by other digits at least one of which is innervated by the ulnar nerve and through which forces exerted in moving said thumb and other digits toward or away from each other in natural gripping and releasing motions may be transmitted,force detector means operatively connected to at least two of said force members one of which is engaged by an ulnar nerve innervated digit and one of which is engaged by a median nerve innervated digit, for measuring the quantity of force applied through said force members by a respective thumb or other digit of said person's hand and for producing outputs indicative of the forces generated by said digits; anddisplay means for displaying said outputs.