What is Muscle Quality?
Muscle strength declines faster than mass in elderly populations. Therefore, monitoring muscle mass is important but insufficient for detection of sarcopenia - routine strength assessments are also essential!
Charder's patented body composition algorithms calculate the subject's grip strength through analysis of their cellular health, segmental results, gender, and other variables. This gives practitioners a key indicator to track as part of the normal body composition assessment!
How is Muscle Quality used?
Grip strength strongly correlates with whole-body strength. If grip strength consistently declines, that is an important warning sign of potential sarcopenia, which can help lead to earlier treatment and training to address the problem.
This is particularly useful in long-term care, rehabilitation, and other fields where muscle effectiveness is a valuable metric to track.
What is the Muscle Quality Score?
By comparing grip strength with normal distribution for others of the same gender, subjects can determine if their results are higher or lower than average. For example, a score of "60" means that the subject's results are in the 60th percentile, and higher than typical for their gender. A score that continuously decreases would be a sign of a person potentially losing strength.
