Grip and Hand Activity Evaluation in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritics

류마티스 환자의 장악력과 손동작 평가에 관한 연구

The purpose of those study is to estimate grip and hand activity of RA patients and find that the evaluation is very a valuable to the RA patients. The term of the evaluation was from June 25. 1998.. to July 30. 1998 and researched at Hanyang university Rheumatic Hospital. This study researched 100 normal people and 85 RA patients and analyzed the results and averaged those with t-test by Excel data. The results of those study are as follows. 1. The highest percent of those results of the dynamometer, pinch research was the people who are on 40s. 2. The results of all RA patients marked lower than those of normal people. 3. It's difficult to do hard work such as washing, opening can, transferring boxes to the patients. 4. The above research is effective to RA patients.