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Strength and Motor Function in an Aging Population in Dependence to Work Position

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The paper aims at clarification if a job type has an influence on three physical properties of humans. Those are dexterity of fingers and hands, grip strength and range of motions. A group of 67 manual and 99 office workers both males and females in different age groups were assessed by Purdue Pegboard Test, Grooved Pegboard Test and Complete Minnesota Dexterity Test. For hand grip the Jamar dynamometer was used and range of motions were measured by standard goniometers. In dexterity area male office workers proved higher dexterity than manual in all kinds of testes. Female office workers proved significant differences only in half of the tests. Grip strength differences were not statistically significant between office and manual workers. Only differences between males and females were confirmed. Regarding range of motions male office workers had better values only in 7 joints from 36, however females had better values in 22 from 36 joints.

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This paper was created with the subsidy of the project LO1502 – Development of Regional Technological Institute carried out with the support of Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic.

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Bures, M., Cadkova, V. (2020). Strength and Motor Function in an Aging Population in Dependence to Work Position. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 967. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20142-5_35

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