Reliability of isokinetic torque measurements: A review of the literature.

Recently there has been increased interest in the use of isokinetic exercise by physiotherapists both in scientific research and clinical practice. Isokinetic exercise can be used for the assessment of muscle performance and for the treatment of impaired muscle performance. Fundamental to the use of isokinetic exercise is the establishment of reliable test protocols for each joint tested to ensure that the isokinetic measurements obtained from the several commercially available isokinetic dynamometers can be reliably reproduced. This paper reviews the literature available on the test-retest reliability of isokinetic torque measurements.