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Normative values and the effects of age, gender, and handedness on the Moberg Pick‐Up Test
Author(s) -
Amirjani Nasim,
Ashworth Nigel L.,
Gordon Tessa,
Edwards David C.,
Chan K. Ming
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
muscle and nerve
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.025
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1097-4598
pISSN - 0148-639X
DOI - 10.1002/mus.20750
Subject(s) - wilcoxon signed rank test , normative , test (biology) , mann–whitney u test , physical medicine and rehabilitation , medicine , psychology , audiology , physical therapy , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , biology
The Moberg Pick‐Up Test is a standardized test for assessing hand dexterity. Although reduction of sensation in the hand occurs with aging, the effect of age on a subject's performance of the Moberg Pick‐Up Test has not been examined. The primary goal of this study was to examine the impact of aging and, secondarily, the impact of gender and handedness, on performance of the Moberg Pick‐Up Test in 116 healthy subjects. The average time to complete each of the four subsets of the test was analyzed using the Kruskal–Wallis, Mann–Whitney U , and Wilcoxon signed‐rank tests. The results show that hand dexterity of the subjects was significantly affected by age, with young subjects being the fastest and elderly subjects the slowest. Women accomplished the test faster than men, and task performance with the dominant hand was faster than with the non‐dominant hand. Use of normative values established based on age and gender is a valuable objective tool to gauge hand function in patients with different neurologic disorders. Muscle Nerve, 2007