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Growth Assessment
Published in Praveen S. Goday, Cassandra L. S. Walia, Pediatric Nutrition for Dietitians, 2022
Julia Driggers, Kanak Verma, Vi Goh
Handgrip strength is measured by the amount of static force that a hand can squeeze around a dynamometer device (Table 1.13). It is a predictor of nutrition status and a marker of muscle quality. Normative data for handgrip strength is available and stratified by gender and age (see Bohannon et al in references). Static force measurements indicate if an individual has weak, normal, or strong hand strength based upon stratified norms. Analysis demonstrates that males at all ages show higher grip strength than females with grip strength peaking in all genders in the fourth decade of life. Handgrip strength and BMI have been loosely correlated with underweight and overweight individuals having lower grip strength than normal weight individuals.
Nuts
Published in Christopher Cumo, Ancestral Diets and Nutrition, 2020
Such anecdotes suggest that Europeans envied natives’ strength and endurance enough to exaggerate them but are otherwise unhelpful. Tests of hand strength measured by grip intensity and published in the early twentieth century, however, indicated that these Indians surpassed whites and Southwestern Amerindians.182 Northern Californians exhibited the greatest strength, and those from central California ranked third. Between the two were Apache in Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. Whites scored below all but Arizona’s Papago, Chapter 8’s “bean people.”183
Human Development and Its Theories
Published in Mohamed Ahmed Abd El-Hay, Understanding Psychology for Medicine and Nursing, 2019
Physical strength typically peaks in early adulthood (the twenties and thirties). Young adults are stronger than older adults, including hand strength (Ranganathan, Siemionow, Sahgal, & Yue, 2001) and finger strength (Oliveira, Hsu, Park, Clark, & Shim, 2008). Young adults also have faster reaction time (Fozard, Vercruyssen, Reynolds, & Hancock, 1994) and better vision (Kline, Kline, Fozard, & Kosnik, 1992). Young adults rarely have life-threatening diseases such as coronary heart disease, rather, accidents, such as automobile accidents, are the most common cause of death (Park, Mulye, Adams, Brindis, & Irwin, 2006).
Post-arthrolysis rehabilitation in a patient with wrist stiffness secondary to distal radio-ulnar fracture: A case report
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2023
Andrea Inglese, Sheila Santandrea
The physical examination was based on the recording of outcome measures (Table 1). To evaluate stiffness, PROM and AROM were recorded and compared with the contralateral limb. In the affected limb, the PROM was equal to the AROM in extension, with the movement of the joint proximal to the wrist; this indicated a structured joint stiffness. In flexion, there was a difference between PROM and AROM of 5 degrees in favor of passive mobility; here, the soft tissues were also affected by stiffness. During passive mobilization performed to test wrist movements, joint limitation was perceived as a cemented end-feel. Through physical examination, diagnostic imaging and considering the time since the initial injury, the stiffness was determined to be in the chronic stage. The joint limitation did not allow the patient to have any functional mobility. This clinical condition was also heightened by a significant loss of hand strength and intense pain compared to the unaffected hand. Conservative rehabilitation alone had not been effective in regaining functionality, so a surgical approach to rigid tissues was proposed as a treatment option.
Correlation between Health-Related Quality of Life and Hand Grip Strength among Older Adults
Published in Experimental Aging Research, 2020
Hand grip strength tests permit the use of normative data for understanding age and sex differences, where results may differ significantly between women and men (User Instructions, 2019). In accordance with our results, men recorded relatively higher hand grip strength values. For this reason, the correlation between the hand grip strength (HGS) and HRQoL was computed for each sex separately. Recent studies (Amaral et al., 2019; Bohannon et al., 2019) have established handgrip strength reference values, and indicated that handgrip strength is expected to decrease with advanced age; the average decline of right and left HGS among men at each decade after the age of 60 years ranged between 5–6 kg; whereas in women ≥60 years, the average reduction of hand strength per decade ranged between 3–4 kg. Comparable to our results the average reduction of HGS per decade was 4–5 kg among men, and 3–6 kg among women.A study in Brazil (Amaral et al., 2019) indicated that the mean handgrip strength for men ≥ 60 ranged between 36.2 ± 8.1, and 25.7 ± 5.8 kg, and in women the mean value of the maximum hand grip ranged between 23 ± 5.5 and 17.1 ± 4.9 kg, convergent results were also found among the United States residents(Bohannon et al., 2019), findings that are a little higher than this study results.
Comparison of portable handheld versus fixed isokinetic dynamometers in measuring strength of the wrist and forearm
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2019
Ann Lucado, Lisa Fraher, Hiral Patel, Gina Munck
Since manipulation of objects with the hand, especially with resistance like opening a jar or twisting a door knob, requires adequate wrist and forearm strength in addition to hand strength, different types of functional strength measures are particularly useful in the clinic. This study examined forearm and wrist strength using devices with different handles designed to mimick daily activities. Using specific handle types may be important clinically for linking strength changes with function of the distal upper extremity; therefore, the functional needs of the patient will likely influence the choice of handle type in wrist and forearm strength measurement. Given the overall results of this study, to ensure accuracy of distal force or torque measurement of the upper extremity, the authors recommend that measurements are taken in such a way that the wrist and hand transfer forces to the dynamometer in a similar fashion, using the same handle type, regardless of the dynamometer type.