Paper
Trends of Handgrip Strength in Students of North Indian City of Amritsar and Its Correlations with Demographic Characteristics
- Authors:
- Shyamal Koley; Archana Khanna
- Abstract
- Measurement of handgrip strength is commonly performed by physiotherapists to measure baseline deficiency in hand muscle power, to monitor progress during rehabilitation, and to document outcome after rehabilitation. The present study deals with the trends of handgrip strength (both dominant and non-dominant) of randomly selected 2167 Indian students (1101 male and 1066 female) aged 6-25 years collected from various schools, colleges and Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India, and its correlations with demographic characteristics. Handgrip strength was measured by standard technique. In results, statistically significant differences (p<0.003-0.001) of dominant and non-dominant handgrip strength were found in all the age groups, except 6,7, 11,12,13 years between the male and female students. Both in male and female students, the increase in dominant and non-dominant handgrip strength were continuous until 13 years of age, after which male students were significantly stronger than female students. The dominant handgrip strength was found to have significantly positive correlations (p<0.05-0.01) with high and moderate socio-economic status, height and body weight of the subjects.
- Keywords
- Handgrip strength; Amritsar; Normative data; Indian population
- StartPage
- 8
- EndPage
- 14
- Doi
- 10.18005/PTHP0201002