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14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT)

17.06. - 21.06.2019, Berlin

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Normative Values of Hand Grip Strength in Healthy Adult Chilean Population: Preliminary Results

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  • presenting/speaker Cristian Cheuquelaf - Santa María Clinic, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • Manuel Vicente Mauri - University of Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
  • E. Nicolas Sepulveda - University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • Andrea Canals - Santa María Clinic, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • Phillip Sizer - Texas Tech University HSC, Lubbock, United States

International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand. International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy. 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT). Berlin, 17.-21.06.2019. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2020. DocIFSHT19-1097

doi: 10.3205/19ifssh1498, urn:nbn:de:0183-19ifssh14984

Published: February 6, 2020

© 2020 Cheuquelaf et al.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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Objective: The purpose of this study was to establish the Hand Grip (HG) reference and normative values in healthy adult Chilean population

Materials and Methods: Analitical cross sectional study design and considering total work active population, hand grip and anthropometric characteristics were measured in 266 subjects of both sexes, between 18 and 65 years old, from three different areas in the Metropolitan region of Santiago, Chile. These data were analyzed through Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric tests for the age group and Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney for dominance and work activity. A multiple regression was also performed to determine the association with the rest of the variables (BMI, length of the hand, width of the hand, diameter of the wrist, length of the forearm, diameter of the forearm)

Results: The median hand grip strength in men was 43 kg and in women 26 kg. Men showed 40% greater strength in the dominant hand and 39% in the non-dominant hand, compared to women. The difference between dominant and non-dominant hand was 3% in men. In both, men and women, manual labor involves a higher HG (p <0.005). Anthropometry influences the strength of the fist differently in both sexes

Conclusions: The results differ from international research, so they could serve as a guide for the treatment and functional prognosis of the Chilean population.