Abstract: Aim of the study is to see influence of RA and OA on hand grip and compare it with normal women. The cross-sectional study comprised female population (45-65) years from urban and rural areas of Punjab. The number of samples were 50 rheumatoid arthritis, 50 osteoarthritis patients and 50 control females. Grip strength was measured with elektronisches Hand- Dynamometer. From available set of data, values of mean±SD of hand grip strength were computed to be 18.1±4.98 for OA group, 12.8±6.57 for RA group and 22.6±4.61 for the control group. Applying t statistics for the paired comparisons of control vs OA group was found to be 4.680 which was statistically highly significant. This implied that average hand grip strength of control group was significantly larger than that of OA group. Similarly, for the paired comparison of control vs RA group the value of t was seen to be 8.667 which again was highly significant. This again implied that the average hand grip strength of control group was significantly higher than that of RA group. Furthermore, application of the t test for OA vs RA group indicated that the average hand grip strength of OA group was significantly larger than that of RA group (t=4.599, p< 0.0001).
Keywords: Hand grip strength, Rheumatoid arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Disability.
Title: Influence of Arthritis on the Hand Grip Strength in the Middle Aged Women Patients of Punjab
Author: Charanjeet kaur, Ajitpal Singh
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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