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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2013 Nov 20;47(1):269–276. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2013.11.014

Table 6.

Mean peak force along all three axes for the wrist, elbow and glenohumeral joints. Force is presented as a percentage of the subject’s body weight (%BW), along with standard deviation (SD).

Joint Magnitude of Lateral (+) / Medial (−) Joint Forces

Max Force (%BW) % Cycle Timing Min Force (%BW) % Cycle Timing Force Range (%BW)

Wrist 5.9 (1.1) 14.2% (4.9) −1.0 (0.3) 95.7% (4.7) 6.9 (1.2)
Elbow 7.0 (1.0) 14.8% (4.6) −2.2 (0.6) 96.4% (5.2) 9.2 (1.2)
Glenohumeral 8.4 (1.5) 19.1% (14.3) −1.6 (0.5) 96.5% (4.0) 10.1 (1.5)

Magnitude of Anterior (+) / Posterior (−) Joint Forces

Max Force (%BW) % Cycle Timing Min Force (%BW) % Cycle Timing Force Range (%BW)

Wrist 6.6 (0.4) 30.1% (4.8) −1.1 (0.3) 81.9% (8.4) 7.7 (0.4)
Elbow 6.3 (1.1) 22.0% (8.3) −1.5 (0.5) 76.9% (4.4) 7.7 (1.1)
Glenohumeral 4.8 (0.7) 24.0% (13.9) −5.2 (0.7) 83.6% (7.9) 10.0 (0.8)

Magnitude of Superior (+) / Inferior (−) Joint Forces

Max Force (%BW) % Cycle Timing Min Force (%BW) % Cycle Timing Force Range (%BW)

Wrist 3.8 (1.5) 19.8% (3.6) −0.6 (0.3) 21.8% (18.1) 4.5 (1.7)
Elbow 3.3 (0.4) 92.2% (8.8) −3.8 (0.5) 31.8% (3.7) 7.1 (0.6)
Glenohumeral 9.6 (1.7) 20.1% (3.5) 1.4 (0.6) 61.5% (10.1) 8.1 (1.8)