Maximum hand grip protocol serves for acquiring and computing the average maximum value of force that subject is able to apply by squeezing the provided force measurement device. Later the computed average maximum value is passed to global variable in order to be used in other protocol routines described in parallel subsections of this document.
The source code of this program is located in physRunHandgripMax.m file. In this function we are aiming to get three separate measurement of hand grip force and compute the average.The algorithm of implementation consists of initialization, acquisition and computation phases.
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After acquiring all the necessary sample samples of maximum hand grip force the program computes the average using sample mean formula. The computed average value is passed to global variable HANDGRIP_MAX. This average maximum force value is also displayed on the screen during all n measurmentsmeasurements.