An examination of the muscular strength – muscular test – is one of the basic examining methods in the area of the moving system. A method for measuring of the strength of a muscle is worked out for each muscle. The strength is set at 6 Degrees which describe the maximal strength which the muscle is able to produce. The examination of the muscular strength has begun to be used for a finding out of the extension of affections at ill people with poliomyelitis, and it was gradually proceeded to the examination of all disorders of the muscular strength both as myogenic as neurogenic etiology.
| Muscular strength 0
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a muscle has not any activity, and so it is not able to make any contractions
| Muscular strength 1 |
a muscle makes only a muscular contraction without an evoking of a motor
activity, i.e. a movement of a limb
| Muscular strength 2 |
a muscle makes a movement of a limb only if the movement is made with a load smaller than a weight of the examined limb
| Muscular strength 3 |
a muscle with this strength makes a movement of a limb only if a load is the same as a weight of the examined limb
| Muscular strength 4 |
a muscle is able to make a movement only at a resistance which is small, but it is bigger than the weight of the limb
| Muscular strength 5 |
a muscle is able to make a movement even if there is a big resistance against this movement
Every muscle has a worked out technique, and we have to
recommend the professional literature because this problem goes beyond the
content of this book.