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NCT Number: NCT03753295

The Effect of BMI on Hand Grip Force in Healthy Adults

This study will be conducted to investigate the effect of BMI on hand grip force in healthy subjects. The participants in this study will be 90 healthy subjects with right dominant lower limb (49 females and 49 males) they will be recruited from College of Applied Medical Sciences, Jazan University.

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Key information

Conditions

Motor Activity Behavior Body Weight Hand Injuries Nutrition Disorders Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases Obesity Overnutrition Overweight Overweight and Obesity Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Signs and Symptoms Wounds and Injuries

Age range

19 year–25 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Jazan University

Riyadh, Jazan Region, 45142, Saudi Arabia

About this study

Subjects will be categorized according to BMI into three groups:

Group I (normal subjects): 30 individuals (15 male, and 15 female students) with (BMI<25 kg/m2) Group II (overweight subjects): 30 individuals (15 male, and 15 female students) with (BMI, 25-30 kg/m2).

Group III (obese subjects): 30 individuals (15 male, and 15 female students) (BMI>30 kg/m2).

Baseline hydraulic hand dynamometer: (Fabrication Enterprises Incorporated, White Plains,New York, USA) will be used to measure the hand grip strength and pinch strength

Who can participate

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Subjects would not have any diseases of the central nervous system.
  • Subjects would not have any orthopedic disorders either of the trunk or the lower limbs in the previous year.
  • None of the subjects has history of balance training ( Erkmen et al., 2010, Li Li, 2012) .

Exclusion criteria

  • Sign of foot pain, reduced tactile and thermal foot sensibility.
  • Peripheral neuropathy.
  • A history of previous back or abdominal surgery/injury
  • A history of patellofemoral pain syndrome, plantar fasciitis, and back pain .
  • Limb-length discrepancy, and anterior or posterior tibialis dysfunction.
  • Evidence of a systemic or musculoskeletal disease within the past six months (AlAbdulwahab & Kachanathu, 2016).

Treatment and study plan

Hand Grip Force

Diagnostic Test

For measuring the grip strength, the subjects will be asked to sit on a chair with their hip joint flexed at 90 degree, and shoulder joint in a neutral position.

The elbow is fixed at 90 degree flexion, forearm in a neutral position, and wrist at 0 to 15 degree radial deviation.

The test will be performed twice, and the higher value between the two measurements will be selected.

The subjects will be allowed a rest time of more than 5 minutes after the first measurement to avoid examiner bias and to decrease physical stress

Primary outcomes

  1. Hand Grip Force of the Right Dominant Hand in The Three Groups

    Time frame: 10 minutes

    Hand Grip strength will be measured in three groups and comparison between them will be made

  2. Comparison of Hand Grip Force between Both Arms in three Groups

    Time frame: 20 minutes

    Measurement of both right dominant hand and left hand will be measured in the three groups and compared with each other.

Secondary outcomes

  1. the effect of gender on the hand grip

    Time frame: 10 minutes

    measurement of hand grip force of the right dominant hand will be taken for both male and females in the three subjects

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Wafaa Mahmoud Amin

Other Gov

Collaborators

  • Cairo University

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Nov 26, 2018
Registry last updated
Mar 12, 2019

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