I heard a couple times now a study into our population's grip strength. Naturally, it has been decreasing generation over generation, but a significant amount - 20%!
The implications of grip strength are also interesting. Perhaps you recall a Doctor asking you to squeeze their fingers? It has been established that general health, resistance to disease, recovery, and longevity are all related to grip strength and that is a great predictor. Hospitals use grip strength as a measure of your likelihood of a vital discharge as it has been shown to have a direct correlation.
So, if you have grown kids, check out their grip strength.
Grip Strength
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Grip Strength
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Re: Grip Strength
I really hope I never have a vital discharge.
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> Perhaps you recall a Doctor asking you to squeeze their fingers?
My physician knows better than that.
My physician knows better than that.
Re: Grip Strength
What, pray tell, is a "vital discharge?" Is that where all your blood is ejected from your mouth after you eat a Slopper at Booger King?ctwo wrote:Hospitals use grip strength as a measure of your likelihood of a vital discharge as it has been shown to have a direct correlation.
As for hospitals supposedly checking grip strength, I was recently released from the hospital after a five day stay and no one checked my grip. They mostly kept checking for signs of life.
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"They mostly kept checking for signs of life."
Did they find any?
~RN
Did they find any?
~RN
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Evidently, since the elevator stopped at the main lobby instead of down in the basement.NP317 wrote:"They mostly kept checking for signs of life."
Did they find any?
~RN
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I think hospitals do not keep dead people around for very long, so discharge is live or dead.BigDumbDinosaur wrote:What, pray tell, is a "vital discharge?" Is that where all your blood is ejected from your mouth after you eat a Slopper at Booger King?ctwo wrote:Hospitals use grip strength as a measure of your likelihood of a vital discharge as it has been shown to have a direct correlation.
As for hospitals supposedly checking grip strength, I was recently released from the hospital after a five day stay and no one checked my grip. They mostly kept checking for signs of life.
This is the formal study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26869476
Standards are so important that everyone must have their own...
To measure is to know - Lord Kelvin
Disclaimer: I'm just a guy with a few machines...
To measure is to know - Lord Kelvin
Disclaimer: I'm just a guy with a few machines...
Re: Grip Strength
I believe the main purpose for the grip test is to see if us single guys have a better grip than the married ones.
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In the old days, single guys were more likely to get a grip on themselves than their married counterparts.toolroom wrote:I believe the main purpose for the grip test is to see if us single guys have a better grip than the married ones.
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Music isn’t at all difficult. All you gotta do is play the right notes at the right time!
Music isn’t at all difficult. All you gotta do is play the right notes at the right time!