Maximum Hand Grip Strength Essay

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Average Maximum Hand Grip Strength Difference between Musicians and Non-musicians
Introduction
When testing human physiology, it is always interesting to consider the background of a group of people and compare their physiology to a group that is opposite. In general, for this experiment, we used a human physiology online database that collected data from undergraduates taking LS23l at UCLA. The test for human physiology were grip and finger strength using a hand dynamometer, lung and breathing analysis using a spirometer, electrical muscle action using an electrocardiogram sensor, and electrical heart action using a wireless heart rate monitor. These test were conducted with these tools setup to the computer and using a program called “loggerPro”
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For this experiment, Grip strength, specifically maximum hand grip force, was analyzed and tested for the purpose of seeing if there is a significant difference between musicians and non-musicians. Hand grip strength can tell someone a lot about a person, relating to ones health dealing with hand muscles or relating to the past dealing with working with ones hands like if they have had an injury or play a type of sport. An experiment that was conducted similarly to this one found that overall non-musicians grip strength was stronger than the grip strength of musicians but that this difference was not significant (Sims et al., 2015). While Sims’s experimental results were not significant, possibly results for experiment will be significant for the difference in mean maximum hand grip force between musicians and non-musicians. The experimental hypothesis is that the average maximum grip force between musicians and non-musicians participants will be significantly different when applying their maximum hand force on the hand dynamometer. The null hypothesis for this experiment is that the average maximum grip force between musicians and non-musicians participants