en Hand Surgery Hand Surgery Original Research Original Research <p> <strong>Abstract</strong></p><p> <strong>Background:</strong> The measurement of hand grip strength has several clinical applications to evaluate chronic hand disability, response to treatment, and work capacity after hand injury.</p><p> <strong>Methods:</strong> We measured hand grip strength of 41 adults and compared their maximum strength with radiographic indices.</p><p> <strong>Results:</strong> There was a significant relationship between hand grip strength and carpal height, third metacarpal and capitate length (All p-values<0.05).</p><p> <strong>Conclusions:</strong> In addition to established factors such as sex, upper limb muscle and joint status, wrist radiographic indices are significantly determinants of hand power grip.</p> Wrist radiography, Hand grip strength, Wrist measurement. 205 208 http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-285&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Davod Jafari djafari@tums.ac.ir 20031947532846002845 20031947532846002845 Yes Department of Hand Surgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran. Hamid Taheri taheri-ham@yahoo.com 20031947532846002846 20031947532846002846 No Department of Hand Surgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran. Hooman Shariatzade shariatzade-h@hotmail.com 20031947532846002847 20031947532846002847 No Department of Hand Surgery,Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran. Farid Najd Mazhar fnajdmazhar@yahoo.com 20031947532846002848 20031947532846002848 No Department of Hand Surgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran. Alireza Jalili alirezajalili.jalili@gmail.com 20031947532846002849 20031947532846002849 No Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Mohamadi Hospital, Bandar Abbas, Iran. Mohamad Ghahramani mhqahremani@yahoo.com 20031947532846002850 20031947532846002850 No Department of Hand Surgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran.