A study of arm anthropometric profile in Indian inter-university basketball players

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The purpose of this study was threefold: firstly, to evaluate the arm anthropometric profile of Indian inter-university basketball players; secondly, to search for the correlations among these arm anthropometric characteristics; and thirdly, to search for the association of handgrip with arm anthropometric characteristics in Indian inter-university basketball players. Three anthropometric characteristics, nine arm anthropometric characteristics, and grip strength of both right and left hand were measured on randomly selected 60 Indian inter-university basketball players (35 males and 25 females, aged 18–25 years) of six universities, who participated in the Inter-university Championship organized at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India. An adequate number of control subjects were also taken from the same place for comparisons. The results indicated statistically significant (p ≤ 0.05 - 0.01) differences between the male basketball players and the controls in height, right handgrip strength, upper arm, forearm and total arm length, whereas no significant differences were found between the female basketball players and the controls. Highly significant (p ≤ 0.01) sex differences were found in the basketball players in almost all the variables studied (except BMI and arm fat area). Significant positive correlations were noted among the arm anthropometric characteristics studied (except arm fat area and arm fat index), and with right and left handgrip strength.

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Arm anthropometric characteristics, handgrip strength, Indian inter-university basketball players

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