Table 2 Mean muscle strength and standard deviation of hand grip according to age, gender and side for MyoGrip and Jamar dynamometers
From: Grip strength measured by high precision dynamometry in healthy subjects from 5 to 80 years
Age range (years) | Gender | Number | Age (years) | Left MGS (kg) | Right MGS (kg) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MyoGrip | Jamar | MyoGrip | Jamar | |||||||||
mean | SD | mean | SD | mean | SD | mean | SD | mean | SD | |||
5–10 | F | 12 | 8.0 | 1.4 | 10.8 | 3.5 | 13.4 | 5.1 | 11.6 | 3.6 | 13.8 | 4.7 |
M | 15 | 6.4 | 1.2 | 8.6 | 1.9 | 10.2 | 2.5 | 9.5 | 1.8 | 10.6 | 2.2 | |
10–15 | F | 9 | 12.4 | 1.4 | 19.0 | 5.3 | 21.3 | 8.0 | 20.6 | 5.0 | 23.2 | 8.9 |
M | 11 | 12.3 | 1.4 | 21.0 | 5.3 | 23.9 | 6.6 | 22.5 | 5.0 | 26.3 | 6.8 | |
15–20 | F | 15 | 17.5 | 1.5 | 26.1 | 4.4 | 29.7 | 4.5 | 27.9 | 4.4 | 31.1 | 4.1 |
M | 10 | 18.1 | 1.5 | 45.2 | 6.2 | 47.3 | 7.4 | 46.9 | 8.6 | 48.4 | 9.7 | |
20–30 | F | 32 | 25.6 | 2.9 | 26.5 | 4.9 | 30.9 | 6.0 | 29.2 | 5.1 | 34.1 | 6.2 |
M | 27 | 24.5 | 2.9 | 45.4 | 6.0 | 50.7 | 7.7 | 48.5 | 5.8 | 53.9 | 6.8 | |
30–40 | F | 31 | 35.0 | 2.8 | 28.3 | 5.0 | 32.9 | 4.4 | 30.8 | 5.2 | 35.9 | 5.0 |
M | 32 | 35.4 | 3.0 | 42.1 | 7.9 | 46.7 | 8.5 | 45.8 | 8.6 | 50.3 | 9.1 | |
40–50 | F | 32 | 45.3 | 3.1 | 27.9 | 4.4 | 33.0 | 5.1 | 28.9 | 4.4 | 33.6 | 4.4 |
M | 26 | 44.5 | 3.1 | 46.1 | 7.7 | 51.1 | 8.7 | 47.7 | 7.4 | 53.2 | 8.6 | |
50–60 | F | 29 | 55.1 | 2.5 | 26.5 | 3.8 | 30.9 | 4.2 | 27.9 | 3.6 | 32.9 | 5.0 |
M | 11 | 54.0 | 3.4 | 42.5 | 7.3 | 47.9 | 7.6 | 46.5 | 6.4 | 51.1 | 8.1 | |
60–70 | F | 21 | 64.8 | 2.9 | 23.1 | 4.2 | 26.7 | 5.0 | 24.6 | 4.7 | 27.9 | 5.6 |
M | 11 | 64.4 | 3.5 | 40.4 | 7.3 | 45.7 | 9.4 | 41.6 | 8.8 | 46.8 | 11.7 | |
70–80 | F | 17 | 73.7 | 2.8 | 23.9 | 4.0 | 25.2 | 4.6 | 25.5 | 4.2 | 27.2 | 5.3 |
M | 5 | 74.5 | 2.9 | 37.4 | 4.2 | 40.6 | 3.8 | 38.4 | 3.8 | 42.8 | 6.7 | |