Health-related physical fitness in patients with complaints of hand, wrist, forearm and elbow: an exploratory study

Little is known about the physical fitness of patients with complaints of hand, wrist, forearm and/or elbow and its possible determinants. Aims were to assess health-related physical fitness (HRPF) in these patients, to compare HRPF with reference values of healthy persons, and to explore whether HRPF was correlated with symptom severity, upper limb function (ULF) and physical activity (PA).Cardiorespiratory fitness, handgrip strength and body...