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The relationship between smartphone usage duration (using smartphone’s ability to monitor screen time) with hand-grip and pinch-grip strength among young people: an observational study

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2021
Background The use of smartphones has become widely popular, especially among young people, for multiple purposes other than communication, including gaming and internet browsing.
Ahmad Osailan
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Bilateral Deficits during Maximal Grip Force Production in Late Postmenopausal Women

Applied Sciences, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate bilateral deficit patterns during maximal hand-grip force production in late postmenopausal women. Twenty late postmenopausal and 20 young premenopausal women performed maximal isometric grip force production ...
Jin-Su Kim, Moon-Hyon Hwang, Nyeonju Kang   +2 more
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Anthropometry based prediction of dominant hand grip strength in Indian office going females

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2016
Background: Physical strength can be measured by means of hand grip strength. It is of great use as a functional index of nutritional status. Aims and Objectives: Physical strength can be measured by means of hand grip strength.
S Rawat
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Preterm-Born Young Women Have Weaker Hand Grip Strength Compared to Their Full-Term-Born Peers

Children, 2023
Prematurity has been linked to lower muscular fitness and increased morbidity across the human lifespan. Hand grip strength is widely used as a measure of muscle strength.
Ella Bruun, Pauli Pätsi, Markku Leskinen, Krista Björkman, Petri Kulmala, Mikko P. Tulppo, Marita Valkama, Marja Ojaniemi   +7 more
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TO STUDY HAND GRIP STRENGTH MEASUREMENT BY GRIP DYNAMOMETER

INTERANTIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT, 2023
Handgrip strength is a indicate the muscle health in hand & Forearms grip strength measured using a hand held grip dynamometer. Grip strength used to assess general strength in order to determine work capacity, for extent of injury, nutritional status & physical fitness.
Kate Rani.D, Zende Akansha.B, Babar Rahul.A   +2 more
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Are they half as strong as they used to be? An experiment testing whether age-related social comparisons impair older people's hand grip strength and persistence [PDF]

, 2012
OBJECTIVE: To assess how age-related social comparisons, which are likely to arise inadvertently or deliberately during assessments, may affect older people's performance on tests that are used to assess their needs and capability.
Swift, Hannah J., Abrams, Dominic, Lamont, Ruth A.   +2 more
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DETERMINING THE STRENGTH OF HAND GRIP FOR HEALTHY ADULTS IN RELATION WITH HAND LENGTH, FOREARM CIRCUMFERENCE, BMI AND HAND DOMINANCE

International Journal of Physiotherapy, 2016
Background: Hand-grip strength studies with healthy adults have shown correlation between anthropometric variables and hand grip strength. There is dearth in literature in population of Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Khalid A Alahmar, Dr. S. Paul Silvian, Dr. Ravi Shankar Reddy, Venkata Nagaraj Kakaraparthi, Dr. Irshad Ahmad, Dr. Mohammad Mahtab Alam   +5 more
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Large-scale GWAS identifies multiple loci for hand grip strength providing biological insights into muscular fitness [PDF]

, 2017
Hand grip strength is a widely used proxy of muscular fitness, a marker of frailty, and predictor of a range of morbidities and all-cause mortality. To investigate the genetic determinants of variation in grip strength, we perform a large-scale genetic ...
Matteini, Amy M, Grarup, Niels, Morris, John A, Thalamuthu, Anbupalam, Wright, Daniel J, Demirkan, Ayse, Derave, Wim, Garton, Fleur C, Oskolkov, Nikolay, Day, Felix R, Trajanoska, Katerina, Joshi, Peter K, Liu, Jun, et al., Willems, Sara M, Mangino, Massimo   +15 more
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Effect of forward head and rounded shoulder posture on hand grip strength in asymptomatic young adults: a cross-sectional study

Bulletin of Faculty of Physical Therapy, 2020
Background Forward head and rounded shoulder posture (FHRSP) is a common clinical postural misalignment. It leads to flexion posture of the spine which increases the amount of tension on the nerve roots, which inversely affects muscle strength and ...
Dalia Mohammed Mosaad, Amr Almaz Abdel-aziem, Ghada Ismail Mohamed, Enas Anwr Abd-Elaty, Karima Salah Mohammed   +4 more
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Effects of the association between APOE rs405509 polymorphisms and gene-environment interactions on hand grip strength among middle-aged and elderly people in a rural population in southern China

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2021
Background Hand grip strength is a complex phenotype. The current study aimed to identify the effects of the association between APOE rs405509 polymorphisms and gene-environment interactions on hand grip strength among middle-aged and elderly people in a
Haoyu He, Huaxiang Lu, Shuzhen Liu, Jiansheng Cai, Xu Tang, Chunbao Mo, Xia Xu, Quanhui Chen, Min Xu, Chuntao Nong, Qiumei Liu, Junling Zhang, Jian Qin, Zhiyong Zhang   +13 more
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