Reverse causation for sure. No grip strength does not increase longevity, but if you're old and still have a muscle mass to have good grip strength, that's probably a good sign that you are healthy and have a good chance of living longer.
Definitely, also disorders like muscular degenerative conditions as well as hormone disregulation that leads to muscular atrophy are associated with higher mortality. It's not that old people with more grip strength are better off than older people of normal grip strength, it's that older people with conditions that lead to weaker grip strength that are already associated with lower lifespan.
plus the fact that its not only diseases but lack of active lifestyle as well. Physically active 80 year old has higher life expectancy, than inactive but quite healthy 80 yr.
I'm 61 and a big dude. I've recently concluded that the food industry is putting lids on jars WAY harder than they used to. Someone should look into this.
Grip is an indicator, like backwards walking balance, and gut health. Doesn't have to directly relate to longevity even if it's a hugely visible indicator, and helps with surviving
@@marcdaniels9079 yes but having better balance and better awareness from your five senses will prevent you from falling since falling is a high cause of death with the elderly. Having that ability reduces your risk of falling. So yes it can extend the length of your life
PT here, just gonna share this here on the off chance it helps even one soul: this is the BEST exercise(s) I have found to help maintain and improve my (nerve damage) and patient's grip strength. Get either a 2# (much more practical) or 5# (better resistance- perfect for athletes) bucket and fill it 3/4 full w/ cheap rice (yes, I know it sounds like a hassle). Then do these 3 exercises in 1-2 minute increments: 1) hands in fists, flex your wrists forward/backward trying to dig to the bottom 2) using fingers ONLY, wiggle them forward/back again trying to dig to bottom 3) hands in grabbing a door knob position and rotate wrists left/right (pronation/supination) just like turning the knob, digging to the bottom Avoid cheating by using upper arm/shoulders or leaning to much upper body weight leaning into the bucket. It's hands/wrists only. You're wrists and hands will get that wonderful muscle burn in no time and you'll notice improvements quickly. Keep the bucket in an unused space and do it 3x/week. I know a bucket full of rice is impractical but it's more effective and cheaper than weights/grips, and targets ALL the intrinsic muscles, not just 1 or 2 major ones. Good luck!
It was easier for me to get sand from the nearby beach than rice. I never tried with rice, but sand definitely offers a tough resistance. It feels almost impossible to fully dig the hands into it and rotate inside. Do you guys think rice is technically more effective for these exercises? It would cost me around 60 bucks to fill up a 40Kg bucket with the cheapest rice I can find.
Finally a sane video on the topic! It's a correlation and not a causation. Great example is my father. The man had really strong hands and grip due to the physical nature of his work but died at 50 because he was an alcoholic who smoked almost a pack a day and didn't give a zero f..ks about his own health.
Dead hangs are incredible for health. I can do up to one minute and thirty seconds now, and I remember when I first started, I felt the most satisfying pop and subsequent relaxation of my spine. It was a really good feeling, as if my spine was finally able to be in a proper, fully stretched position. I also do farmer's carries, which if done properly, force you to walk in the correct posture. As someone who spends a lot of time on a computer and loves it (natural programmer here), I knew it was not good for my body to sit all day. Adding a few hours of workouts in the morning with a lot of exercises that tested my grip and worked my traps has done wonders for my standing posture and overall strength!
I was out of work with an injury for the last year and I just went back two weeks ago. I work for Pepsi and the job is very physical and we are grabbing things all day long. My hands have been so sore these last two weeks getting back in to the everyday routine of handling so many packages of soda. This was perfect timing on this video as I sit down and eat my breakfast this morning. Thanks for all of your amazing work.
I’ve always had a hard time understanding and memorising the muscles of the forearm, their attachments and functions, but this video helped me not only to understand them, but to also appreciate just how complex and fine our hand muscles have evolved just to do these everyday tasks and be versatile with finely handling pencils to just gripping and lifting up the whole body from the ground!
I was losing my grip strength in year 2023 which was happening due to cervical discal herniation and compression of nerves. It was such a wierd and worst experience while losing a whole left side of your body... Now I had surgery in last year sept and it's all good now! Grip strength does matter!
I recently had an accident that fractured two of my phalanges, affecting my grip strength. Thanks to your video, I learned a lot about improving grip strength and found it incredibly helpful in my recovery. Thank you for sharing such valuable information!
@@theanatomylabI broke my hand punching a dude in the head, numerous times, bare fisted. Ask any professional boxer if your hand recovers 100% after a break or fracture, it doesn't. This is the real reason boxers wear gloves.
Every time I watch a video like this it makes me so happy that I’ve donated my body to science. To know that after my death, new medical students will learn from it, is awesome!
Data shows that elderly people use to die few years after they start falling or after a hip break. Grip strength can prevent falls and that’s the main reason why it is related to longevity. Also, good feet health and strength can prevent falls and that’s exactly what respectful shoes help on (in contrast with shoes that prevent your feet from feeling the floor).
Possibly true but many many things contribute to fall avoidance. Go spend some time either a geriatric occupational therapist and they will explain this very complex area
Last August during a hemicolectomy I picked up a blood clot in my left subclavian vein. It left me with some nerve damage in my left arm, limited flexibility in my wrist and no grip strength. Earlier this year my grip strength had crept up to 4kg, it is currently at 18kg and am able to use the brakes on my ebike! Still extreme carpal tunnel like symptoms but the neurologist has said it will take time, another year to 18 months. There is very slow progress, but following the exercises given to me by physiotherapy and occupational therapy there is very slow progress. It is eye opening as to where grip strength plays an important role when you don’t have it!
@@theanatomylab I was a mailman for 33 years and had incredible grip strength in my left hand. Five years after retirement, I've noticed my grip strength has weakened a lot. Jar lids aren't my biggest problem, but those pesky anti-tamper seals on bottles and jars are the worst. Getting old blows dead bear.
Guys, your channel really is amazing. Seeing the way the human body works is absolutely magical!! it is insane to think that some seemingly minute aspect can have such a complicated process of creation, and i think that process is just as fascinating as the result. Thank you so much for putting stunning info like this in such a comprehensive and engaging wayy :) You truly do justice to this fascinating mechanism.
@Josef-EU so you really believe that a random fish was able to breathe on Sand and was also able to feed itself while on the sand so that it had enough energy to potentially reproduce with itself so that someday it could become a monkey that would become a human that never grew a forehead but somehow has a forehead? All of those genetic traces are gone so where did they go if we are supposed to be progressing and evolving forward? Trust me the body couldn't survive without all of its pre-designed features, if we were to follow Evolution everything would have died before it had the chance or the ability to reproduce. Natural selection is just how the bloodline moves forward what are the strongest typically survive although nowadays everybody's pretty weak
It's more about maintaining lean mass than being active. Being able to be active correlates with the first one, but the root cause is above sufficient protein intake.
As a pole sport dancer for over 6 years, our grip strength is superior! People underestimate how difficult it is holding all of your body weight up in various positions-especially with only your two hands as grip points😜Definitely a 10/10 activity if you want to increase grip strength as well as shoulders, back, core, legs, flexibility, pain tolerance, dance and many other skills..so much fun!
Great Video. There are numerous academically accredited influencers here on YT who advocate grip strength training to promote longevity as if the causality goes both ways. This goes to show that even if someone is a "Professor" the minute he becomes an influencer who supposedly knows anything about everything and spend too much of his time "making content" or interviews instead of research or academical work - you should take their content with a pinch of salt. Not all MD Doctors or Phds are the same on social media.
I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and your awesome video helped me better visualize how my tendons work and where the pain is coming from so I can manage it. Thanks
A note about manual labor. As a mechanic, we use our hands a lot and while your grip strength can be strong, there's a great risk of developing arthritis, especially in the thumb joint which can cripple grip strength as you become unable to use you hands over time. Manual labor is deadly for joints over long-term.
This video came just in time because on June 1st the day before this video was posted, I just purchased an adjustable grip strength trainer for $15 in a garage sale near my house. Then on June 2nd this video was posted. And finally on June 3rd this video was recommended to me, and I posted this comment. What a convenience coincidence. Edit: Just a cherry on top, I am using the grip strength trainer tool as I am watching this video!
Something related I've always found interesting is the difference in how far each finger can move independently DIFFERENTLY between both hands (i.e. my left hand i can lower my pinky without moving my other fingers, but my right hand can't (it has to take the ring finger along).
I find the hand so fascinating! I was looking at some anatomy textbooks, trying to find out why you can bend the PIP joint without bending the DIP joint, but not the other way around. Seeing the way one tendon splits the other was really interesting and I even got to see it in body worlds some time ago! Anatomy is just so amazing! Thank you for all the work you do on this channel!
I don’t know why I watch these. I’m a software developer and I don’t really do anything related to A&P but the body has always fascinated me since I did a couple of years of training to become a fitness instructor decades ago. It’s amazing that we have this on UA-cam to help us learn things that interest us, even if it’s just for the sake of learning more.
I’m a licensed professional massage therapist specializing in corrective techniques like myofascial release, myoskeletal realignment, deep tissue, and neuromuscular therapy. Imma live forEVER ‘cause my grip strength is insane.
My favorite grip strength exercise is Weck's "Dragon Roll": lateral movement with a jump rope without jumping over the rope. The Flow Rope teachers and rope-makers use larger diameter jump ropes and tie them with large grip handles. The Dragon Roll movement challenges grip strength and rewards a bit of pronation/supination in the DFAL/DBAL in every helical cycle. It's the only exercise I've found that develops the abductor digiti minimi muscle of each hand -- the "live long and prosper" muscle.
I’ve been rock climbing for the past 20+ years and can attest to the fact that, although I do have better-than-average grip strength, it is because of how much i love that activity. It gets me outside and keeps me super active. I plan on doing it and training for climbing as well as all the other health components that support it for the rest of my life!
As an artist who draws a lot of figures, and so forth , for sketching, drawings, and painting, I've done a ton of anatomy drawings over the many years, and thus I found this very interesting. And doubly so in my case, as I'm quite holistically oriented in my life-style (diet, exercise, etc.) for decades.. So, your video hit both these areas of interest for me- anatomical knowledge along with valuable health information. Excellent!
2 years ago, I tore (traction tear) the common flexor tendon (30%) in my left arm, it took 1 1/2 years to regain my grip strength, but the last measurement was 49 lbs. and though I lost about 5 lbs. of grip strength from the injury, and my hand still goes numb while i sleep, I feel I healed really well. In Nov of 2022 a a coworker manipulated equipment and a piece of that equipment hit me on the inside of the right elbow/ forearm., in February of 2023 I tripped at work and fell on the outside of the right elbow. X-rays show an old chip but otherwise all doctors (3 Ortho's) all say my arm is fine, yet it isn't, i started with 60 lbs. of grip strength and my last measurement was 35lbs. The pain isn't where I fell but where the equipment hit me. Work comp says they aren't responsible even though both injuries happened at work, and both were reported. The pain is the worst when I wake up, probably a 2-3. but the hand falls asleep, but the most important thing is that loss of grip strength.....do you have any ideas how i can build it back up my over strength has declined also in that arm. It's really annoying at this point because I used to kayak, hit the heavy bag and shot archery. The physical therapist said I can do none of those until I'm healed. Obviously, I didn't continue with PT because work comp won't cover it, any advice/ exercises you can suggest would be appreciated.
The fingernails too. It's funny how seeing the skin and nails makes you remember that this was a person once. I started imagining the person based on those finger tips. Wondering if they were male or female, fit it obese, young, middle aged or old.
In my 70s, I've noticed that my grip strength isn't what it was in my 50s or 60s. However, it's nice to know that carrying heavy grocery bags back from the bus stop is helping. Moreover, I used to be a professional baker so kneading dough again should help.
I've studied the tendons and muscles of the hand multiple times before without fully remembering everything, but your anatomy lab illustrated explanation finally helped me learn it for good. You're a fantastic anatomy instructor. Thank you!
Jonathan is truly the most AMAZING anatomy instructor! I was blessed to him teach my anatomy class at the Utah College of Massage Therapy in 2012! Unfortunately my class didn’t get the opportunity to attend the cadaver lab at the U😢 I’ve noticed that tendinitis (inflammation of the tendons) will negatively affect your grip strength and end up leaving you in excruciating pain. This is caused my repetitive motions, over use, and it leads to a build up of scar tissue. So give it rest, release the tension in the muscles and other tissues around the area. And get the inflammation under control. Inflammation is like a virus and can spread throughout other section of the body. So treat your body like the machine it is, keep up the maintenance, just like you would do with your car! Sleep well Eat well And live well!
@3:41 i thought of something. If you were able to have 2 different colored gloves(that werent distracting) you could see what youre pointing out here better.
Im a 63 year old bricklayer. I run and cycle and have a very nutricious diet. My grip strength is as a result of decades of lifting bricks, blocks and trowels of mortar. If i live a long life itll be as a result of my overal lifestyle not because i have extremely good grip strength
Good to know! I realised that whenever I paused my excercise (which includes grip training) for say; 3 weeks, tingles begins running from my elbow down to the fingers (especially the ring-and small fingers). When I resume the excercise again, the tingle stops.
Lifting heavy weights improves both longevity and grip strength. If you have grip strength, chances are that you have been very active in your life, and that is what improves your longevity.
It's not grip strength in and of itself, it is a metric for what it represents. That the person is likely to be physically active and not a couch potato stuffing their pie-hole with processed trash food while binge watching Netflix. It's the same with the '40-pushup test' for cardiovascular health, it's not magic, it is simply a metric that indicates the person is physically active.
What?? That's so judgy. I was losing my grip due to "growth" on my tendons. After surgery and therapy, I am as good as new. Nothing to do with being a sack potato or not eating right.
When I read the articles saying grip strength is correlated with longevity, I interpreted the results as saying that strength was the key to longevity and that grip was the best proxy for measuring overall strength. After all, it’s hard to measure a person’s 1 rep max for squat, deadlift or bench press, especially for people who never worked out. Grip strength is the easiest strength measurement to take in a doctor’s office. But people interpreted those results as “you need to specifically improve your grip strength”. I see old guys at the gym doing dead hangs because of this, and I’m like, yeah that’s great but you’re missing the overall point.
Hey guys, I've been watching you folks for some time, but I am sure I have not seen all of the videos. I have a suggestion (if it has not already been done): Puberty and specifically related to hormones that cause teens to lose their minds. I have 5 teenagers and 3 of them are in the middle of the hormone induced chaos period of rebellion, tantrums and love interests. Yes, I have 5 teenagers, but 2 sets of twins. Let's say me and my co-parent are slowly losing our sanity. Could you maybe shed some light on the physical and chemical transitions that happen in this crazy years and maybe help us better understand how to deal with these people? As always, you guys are awesome and I love all the videos. :)
@@quietcell not necessarily child cadavers, but use the current ones to explain the issues. Teens can seem very crazy, it would be cool to understand in detail why. I know mine have their crazy moments.
I do work grip strength with rope climbing (only arms, no legs), rope pull ups and so on. This really works flexors, and some people may get golfers elbow because of that . If they don't also work their extensors to keep both within some balance. I was hoping extensors would be covered too as just about no one thinks about it till they get golfers elbow and go to a physical therapist that will have them work on extensors. You can already be doing this and not go through dealing with golfers elbow.
Hello!! I love your videos!! I wish they were Spanish dubbed versions. So much of the Hispanic community goes of off superstitious beliefs. Don't get me wrong we be having some miracle medicine down south, but the details of this video are so detailed I know this would teach them some amazing human anatomy. I volunteer to be hired! Lol I have a nice voice is what I've been told often by others lol
No one has better grip then Nathan Drake or the various Assassin's creed. Mtf somehow manages to stop their 300km/h falls with absolutely no damage every single time.
A couple years ago I tried too hard to open a jar (which was very, very hard) and injured one of the muscles around the pointer finger of my right hand. It's been a while but I still have slight pain every now and then. I've also never put 100% of my strength to force something open with my hands anymore. If it's too hard, I'd rather let the jar/bottle/whatever left unopened than injure my hand again.
The largest parts of both sensory and motor cortex of the brain are dedicated to hand and fingers. So training grip regularly would also keep a large portion of the cerebral cortex healthier.
I paralysed my left hand when I was twenty and it has never fully recovered (although I can use it now). It has limited me in so many ways and sucks to think that it may lead to an early death now as well (although I had my suspicions). Take care of your hands, feet, neck, and back.
Grip strength is one of those things that most person don't think about in their daily life, but we use it A LOT. The weaker our grips, the less activity that we will do subconsciously, which in return weaken more of our muscles overall, which made our grip even weaker. It's just my own observation on older people who kinda going through this phase.
As someone who trained BJJ in my 40s I can say it feels surprisingly good to develop grip strenght. I think most of us undervalue how many times we CAN split in other muscle groups if we have a firm grip and use our arms too.
Fat grips are also a good way to passively increase grip strength when resistance training, like adding fat grips to dumbbells during the farmers carry exercise. Wrist rollers don't increase grip strength as much as forearm strength but it doesn't hurt and they're easy to make. I have an adjustable grip strength trainer that goes from 55lbs to 198lbs, I keep it in my work bag and use it almost daily but I am not a rock climber. That said I hit a plateau with my deadlifting in that I can't go too much heavier or do more reps because my grip strength is lagging behind. I also do Parkour and Striking Martial Arts, and am starting grappling soon, so great grip is needed for those as well.
I remember, not too long ago, when every 8th person was getting operations on their carpel tunnel. I haven't seen a single carpel tunnel operation since.
Hola Jonathan Bennion del instituto de la anatomia humana mucho gusto me llamo Diana Mendez soy una espectadora y me gusta tu canal gracias por brindarnos tus conocimientos lo bonito que es nuestro cuerpo gracias buen video ❤
*Bottom Line:* Strong grip strength does *not* guarantee health and longevity. But if you are exercising and active -- particularly with your upper body -- you're more likely to have a strong grip AND be a healthier human. So, HOW you arrive at the grip strength is more important than merely having it. ✊👊👋
I have incredible grip strength. I'm in the kitchen exhaust cleaning industry. Sometimes every square inch of these systems have to be scraped out using sharp hand tools like giant chisels. After years of doing that night after night I have developed supergrip.
Aside from the correlation from healthy lifestyles, I also think there's something uniquely mental about really testing your grip strength that is different from other kinds of strength training. I did karate for 15 years, and a way I would often be told to practice making a fist was to just focus on holding it and making it tighter and tighter over the course of several minutes. It's kind of crazy how hard we can clench our fists if we really focus. You can get it so tight and hold it long enough that it takes its own mental effort to unclench the fist when you're done. I'm sure some of that is just the muscles being "stuck", but the only way to get to that point is to push past what you believe is possible.
Brilliant video! Facilitating to see the linkage between exercise, strength, and wellness. As I get older, I am more aware of making myself falls resilient; this vid drives home the point. The anatomy lesson was very interesting. I hadn’t stopped to think about the muscles and tendons in the forearm. Great work!
I use sled with weights, push and pull besides my daily work as a Rolfer....I am 77 this year and have no problems physically, especially not with hands
Considering that grip strength tends to be the limiter for absolute total strength (dead lift capacity), weak grip is a strong indicator of overall weakness/feebleness. It would be an anomaly to find individuals with abnormally high overall strength with average to low grip strength. So, people with high grip strength have higher overall strength, developed musculature, and as a result, tend to live longer than those with weak grip strength, low overall strength, and underdeveloped/atrophied musculature.
Wow there are are so many incorrect assumptions and fallacies here I don’t have time to list them all but suffice to say your analysis is simply incorrect.
If I remember correctly, and that was a long time ago, I seem to recall that flexor digitorum superficialis has two tendons in the forearm in some people but only one tendon in others. The latter is considered evolutionary more recent.
very interesting! i have a condition know as hEDS. basically an invisible disability. it causes my connective tissue to be very loose over my whole body. unfortunately it led to my joint dislocating and has impacted my life highly including my grip strength. i'm curious how someone like me with their muscles and connective tissues issues, how my tendons and stuff would look? its so amazing how complex the human body is.
Question: So, I learned from this video that the FDS is responsible for bending the PIP joints of the pointer to pinky fingers, and the FDP bends the DIP joints of them as well. Why does it seem common to be able to isolate the bending of the PIP joints of each finger, but then the DIP bend seems to commonly cause both the ring and pinky DIP joints to bend together as a unit? Is there an anatomical reason for this? Thank you for all you do, I truly appreciate you sharing your knowledge and educating us on the human body. It's so interesting and humbling.
If I was left hanging on the cliff of Life....I'm not now~ I really dig your channel and info....this past 5 years or so. Posture, tone and not a lot of extra baggage~
I get trigger finger often in about half my fingers. I put a brace on the finger(s) affected for about a month and it recovers. I usually have to repeat the process every 12-18 months. The brace I use is a thick strip of foam that covers the top and bottom of the whole finger, and held straight by a long strip of metal that bends in a tight U shape outside the foam, holding the whole digit straight out from the palm so it can't be bent at any joint. I then tape it on with surgical tape. But if you cheat and use the finger, it just sets recovery back. And yes, if this is your middle finger, it gives you an excuse to flip everyone off for a month or so.
Thanks, I always found a need to talk about the other than the knuckle joint but didn't have any name. Now I can just say interphalangeal joint and everyone will know what I'm trying to talk about. And obviously proximal and distal to make it more clear.
It’s also how much you grip and what you’re gripping.. phones for example, are destroying hand function by doing mass light work! Ppl who phone a lot generally have weaker hands, vs someone that trains or works hard.
I mean, when I had multiorgan failure and was definitely 98% expected to croak, the physical therapy assessment lady (I'm sure she had a job title, but I don't for the life of me remember anything that happened for a couple years straight back then) apparently said that the one thing of mine that remained well above average was my grip strength. And look, I didn't die after all! *COINCIDENCE?* I think NOT!
I first learned about grip strength in the book Outlive. Could you please provide an overview of the book? I’ve read it once and am about to finish it for the second time. I love your channel and would appreciate more content about longevity, specifically focusing on: Nutrition, Exercise (cardio, resistance, grip and stability), Sleep, Emotional health
Reverse causation for sure. No grip strength does not increase longevity, but if you're old and still have a muscle mass to have good grip strength, that's probably a good sign that you are healthy and have a good chance of living longer.
The only sensible comment.
Definitely, also disorders like muscular degenerative conditions as well as hormone disregulation that leads to muscular atrophy are associated with higher mortality. It's not that old people with more grip strength are better off than older people of normal grip strength, it's that older people with conditions that lead to weaker grip strength that are already associated with lower lifespan.
plus the fact that its not only diseases but lack of active lifestyle as well. Physically active 80 year old has higher life expectancy, than inactive but quite healthy 80 yr.
Yes, the title immediately irritated me 😡
i love building and maintaining strength of grip and hands , it helps a lot. 🙏💪✊
I'm still amazed at the fact a channel like this even exists. The production and educational value is off the charts, really.
Nothing would be done for free they getting paid thru UA-cam
I agree. 👍🏽
@jayceontaylor9209 nó không làm mà muốn có ăn
Props to the person who gave their body for our education and props to teacher who gave his knowledge.
Thanks man! I donated that arm 💪 right after crocodile 🐊 ripped it off during Africa safari last year. 😳
And they got to keep their cute lil fingertips!
For real, though. Very honorable thing that deserves recognition. I know all the lab guys are taught to give props but we should too.
@@alphaomega1351Ahhh, that kind hungry crocodile that supports medical education 😊😊😊 so glad it gave back the delicious arm for us.
Props to the unique personality that can skin a cadaver. 😅
I'm 61 and a big dude. I've recently concluded that the food industry is putting lids on jars WAY harder than they used to. Someone should look into this.
The dryer is shrinking our clothing more as well
@ronjones6977, Nope. You're obviously just getting weaker, probably signs of cognitive decline & Alzheimer's 😁🙋🙏
Ron is claiming he's "big", meaning he's actually fat 😁
Even the AARP doesn't address this!!!! The humanity.....😂
I guess you are just getting old
Grip is an indicator, like backwards walking balance, and gut health. Doesn't have to directly relate to longevity even if it's a hugely visible indicator, and helps with surviving
gut health is pretty direct, cut and clear especially if you know the species of bacteria living there - not as cut and dry as amount of muscle
It’s all correlation not causation - you don’t live longer because you have good backwards walking balance
@@marcdaniels9079 yes but having better balance and better awareness from your five senses will prevent you from falling since falling is a high cause of death with the elderly. Having that ability reduces your risk of falling. So yes it can extend the length of your life
PT here, just gonna share this here on the off chance it helps even one soul: this is the BEST exercise(s) I have found to help maintain and improve my (nerve damage) and patient's grip strength.
Get either a 2# (much more practical) or 5# (better resistance- perfect for athletes) bucket and fill it 3/4 full w/ cheap rice (yes, I know it sounds like a hassle). Then do these 3 exercises in 1-2 minute increments:
1) hands in fists, flex your wrists forward/backward trying to dig to the bottom
2) using fingers ONLY, wiggle them forward/back again trying to dig to bottom
3) hands in grabbing a door knob position and rotate wrists left/right (pronation/supination) just like turning the knob, digging to the bottom
Avoid cheating by using upper arm/shoulders or leaning to much upper body weight leaning into the bucket. It's hands/wrists only.
You're wrists and hands will get that wonderful muscle burn in no time and you'll notice improvements quickly. Keep the bucket in an unused space and do it 3x/week. I know a bucket full of rice is impractical but it's more effective and cheaper than weights/grips, and targets ALL the intrinsic muscles, not just 1 or 2 major ones. Good luck!
Great explanation!
It was easier for me to get sand from the nearby beach than rice. I never tried with rice, but sand definitely offers a tough resistance. It feels almost impossible to fully dig the hands into it and rotate inside. Do you guys think rice is technically more effective for these exercises? It would cost me around 60 bucks to fill up a 40Kg bucket with the cheapest rice I can find.
You only need a 20L bucket, you can also use buck wheat. Sand is too dense.
Sound ms like OT exercise. I’ve had knuckles replaced and 3 months OT doing similar
I use bird seed …only because I have a lot of bird seed for the birds
Finally a sane video on the topic! It's a correlation and not a causation. Great example is my father. The man had really strong hands and grip due to the physical nature of his work but died at 50 because he was an alcoholic who smoked almost a pack a day and didn't give a zero f..ks about his own health.
@alanbaskaev3907 being an alcoholic and smoking tobacco is a great way to destroy your testosterone levels and torture your chromosomes :(
Ну в России миллион и одна причина откинуть коньки в 50
@@АлтынбекДюсембаев-л5ьreally dude. I'm African, Kenyan to be specific. Always wanted to come to Russia.
3:15 i was not ready for those fingertips
Righttt😭
Right? It makes the cadaver... human.
Almost made me lose my breakfast.🤢
me tooooo
SAME!!! I froze for a second like wtf did i just see😳
Dead hangs are incredible for health. I can do up to one minute and thirty seconds now, and I remember when I first started, I felt the most satisfying pop and subsequent relaxation of my spine. It was a really good feeling, as if my spine was finally able to be in a proper, fully stretched position. I also do farmer's carries, which if done properly, force you to walk in the correct posture. As someone who spends a lot of time on a computer and loves it (natural programmer here), I knew it was not good for my body to sit all day. Adding a few hours of workouts in the morning with a lot of exercises that tested my grip and worked my traps has done wonders for my standing posture and overall strength!
Finally got rid of my golfers elbow thanks to dead hangs, one handed did wonders.
Good stuff 👏
A great combination of exercises!
im sure this corpse can beat you in a dead hang......
@@marky5493 You're DEAD right there mate 😁🤣
Holy shit that dissection is immaculate. Incredible work
I was out of work with an injury for the last year and I just went back two weeks ago. I work for Pepsi and the job is very physical and we are grabbing things all day long. My hands have been so sore these last two weeks getting back in to the everyday routine of handling so many packages of soda. This was perfect timing on this video as I sit down and eat my breakfast this morning. Thanks for all of your amazing work.
Thank you for watching and glad you have been able to get back to work from your injury!
I’ve always had a hard time understanding and memorising the muscles of the forearm, their attachments and functions, but this video helped me not only to understand them, but to also appreciate just how complex and fine our hand muscles have evolved just to do these everyday tasks and be versatile with finely handling pencils to just gripping and lifting up the whole body from the ground!
I was losing my grip strength in year 2023 which was happening due to cervical discal herniation and compression of nerves. It was such a wierd and worst experience while losing a whole left side of your body...
Now I had surgery in last year sept and it's all good now!
Grip strength does matter!
thanks for sharing
Glad you are doing better!
Going through it right now, what surgery did you go through?
I’m in a similar situation from a deadlift not going well, lost control and form was broken so now just doing body weight training to stay in shape
@@kevinparker7247 :)
I recently had an accident that fractured two of my phalanges, affecting my grip strength. Thanks to your video, I learned a lot about improving grip strength and found it incredibly helpful in my recovery. Thank you for sharing such valuable information!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
dont worry bones can heal completely that too in a short time span. One ought to worry only if they have a tendon or ligament injury.
@@theanatomylabI broke my hand punching a dude in the head, numerous times, bare fisted. Ask any professional boxer if your hand recovers 100% after a break or fracture, it doesn't. This is the real reason boxers wear gloves.
Every time I watch a video like this it makes me so happy that I’ve donated my body to science. To know that after my death, new medical students will learn from it, is awesome!
Data shows that elderly people use to die few years after they start falling or after a hip break. Grip strength can prevent falls and that’s the main reason why it is related to longevity.
Also, good feet health and strength can prevent falls and that’s exactly what respectful shoes help on (in contrast with shoes that prevent your feet from feeling the floor).
Possibly true but many many things contribute to fall avoidance. Go spend some time either a geriatric occupational therapist and they will explain this very complex area
Last August during a hemicolectomy I picked up a blood clot in my left subclavian vein. It left me with some nerve damage in my left arm, limited flexibility in my wrist and no grip strength. Earlier this year my grip strength had crept up to 4kg, it is currently at 18kg and am able to use the brakes on my ebike! Still extreme carpal tunnel like symptoms but the neurologist has said it will take time, another year to 18 months. There is very slow progress, but following the exercises given to me by physiotherapy and occupational therapy there is very slow progress. It is eye opening as to where grip strength plays an important role when you don’t have it!
Institute of Human Anatomy: "Does Grip Strength Really Help You Live Longer?"
Answer: "Yes, definitely, if your gripping on for dear life"
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I think Syl Stallone has something to say about this.
Brilliant 😂😅
It's it's it's ummm grippy
2:00 that guy scaling the wall... His hook came out of the cliff as he fell.
He's the cadaver!
Proof that grip strength DOES have a causal relationship to longevity!
Dude should have squeezed more tennis balls.
I work grip twice a week so this is really cool to see what's going on inside my antebrachium.
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@@theanatomylab I was a mailman for 33 years and had incredible grip strength in my left hand. Five years after retirement, I've noticed my grip strength has weakened a lot. Jar lids aren't my biggest problem, but those pesky anti-tamper seals on bottles and jars are the worst. Getting old blows dead bear.
I dunno that it makes me live any longer, but every night since I was 12, it reminds me why life is still worth living...
Lol!
Dude....😂😂😂 No truer spoken words from the male species.
Buhahahahaha!!!
You know that you can move on to better things now, don't you?
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Guys, your channel really is amazing. Seeing the way the human body works is absolutely magical!! it is insane to think that some seemingly minute aspect can have such a complicated process of creation, and i think that process is just as fascinating as the result. Thank you so much for putting stunning info like this in such a comprehensive and engaging wayy :) You truly do justice to this fascinating mechanism.
True, everything has a beautiful design that we would have never been able to come up with using our limited understanding
Thank you! We very much appreciate your comment!
@Josef-EU so you really believe that a random fish was able to breathe on Sand and was also able to feed itself while on the sand so that it had enough energy to potentially reproduce with itself so that someday it could become a monkey that would become a human that never grew a forehead but somehow has a forehead? All of those genetic traces are gone so where did they go if we are supposed to be progressing and evolving forward? Trust me the body couldn't survive without all of its pre-designed features, if we were to follow Evolution everything would have died before it had the chance or the ability to reproduce. Natural selection is just how the bloodline moves forward what are the strongest typically survive although nowadays everybody's pretty weak
I'm sure the main correlation between grip strength and longevity is that people with greater grip strength tend to be people that are more active
Congrats for watching the video
It's more about maintaining lean mass than being active. Being able to be active correlates with the first one, but the root cause is above sufficient protein intake.
@@bennyklabarpan7002 I resemble that
As a pole sport dancer for over 6 years, our grip strength is superior! People underestimate how difficult it is holding all of your body weight up in various positions-especially with only your two hands as grip points😜Definitely a 10/10 activity if you want to increase grip strength as well as shoulders, back, core, legs, flexibility, pain tolerance, dance and many other skills..so much fun!
Great Video. There are numerous academically accredited influencers here on YT who advocate grip strength training to promote longevity as if the causality goes both ways. This goes to show that even if someone is a "Professor" the minute he becomes an influencer who supposedly knows anything about everything and spend too much of his time "making content" or interviews instead of research or academical work - you should take their content with a pinch of salt. Not all MD Doctors or Phds are the same on social media.
Peter Attia. They know how to read papers but they are after the money 😮
@@marcdaniels9079 There are several other Professors who reverberate unverified "research" from Harvard and other "fine" establishments..
I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and your awesome video helped me better visualize how my tendons work and where the pain is coming from so I can manage it. Thanks
A note about manual labor. As a mechanic, we use our hands a lot and while your grip strength can be strong, there's a great risk of developing arthritis, especially in the thumb joint which can cripple grip strength as you become unable to use you hands over time. Manual labor is deadly for joints over long-term.
Brilliant comment!
This video came just in time because on June 1st the day before this video was posted, I just purchased an adjustable grip strength trainer for $15 in a garage sale near my house. Then on June 2nd this video was posted. And finally on June 3rd this video was recommended to me, and I posted this comment. What a convenience coincidence.
Edit: Just a cherry on top, I am using the grip strength trainer tool as I am watching this video!
From my understanding the forearm has more than 20 muscles?
Anconeus muscle, Musculus anconæus:
Flexor carpi radialis: (FCR)
Extensor carpi radialis longus: (ECRL)
Extensor carpi radialis brevis: (ECRB)
Palmaris longus:
Flexor carpi ulnaris: (FCL)
Extensor carpi ulnaris: (ECU)
Flexor Digitorum Superficialis: (FDS)
Flexor Digitorum Profundus: (FDP)
Extensor Digitorum Superficialis: (EDS)
Extensor Digitorum Profundus: (EDP)
Extensor Digiti Minimi: (EDM)
Extensor Retinaculum: (ER)
Abductor digiti minimi: (ADM) Abductor digiti quinti:
Abductor pollicis longus: (AbPL)
Abductor policis brevis: (AbPB)
Adductor policis longus: (AdPL)
Adductor policis brevis: (AdPB)
Flexor pollicis longus: (FPL)
Flexor pollicis brevis: (FPB)
Flexor digiti minimi brevis (FDMB)
Extensor pollicis brevis: (EPB)
Extensor pollicis longus: (EPL)
Extensor indici:
Lumbricalis musculi:
Opponens pollicis: (OP)
Opponens digiti minimi: (ODM)
Pronator quadratus:
Pronator teres:
Supinator:
I need help.
I think I already found my mistake, I included some hand muscles for some reason.
I would love a video similar to this for the lower leg!
We will add it to the list!
Something related I've always found interesting is the difference in how far each finger can move independently DIFFERENTLY between both hands (i.e. my left hand i can lower my pinky without moving my other fingers, but my right hand can't (it has to take the ring finger along).
I find the hand so fascinating! I was looking at some anatomy textbooks, trying to find out why you can bend the PIP joint without bending the DIP joint, but not the other way around. Seeing the way one tendon splits the other was really interesting and I even got to see it in body worlds some time ago! Anatomy is just so amazing!
Thank you for all the work you do on this channel!
I don’t know why I watch these. I’m a software developer and I don’t really do anything related to A&P but the body has always fascinated me since I did a couple of years of training to become a fitness instructor decades ago.
It’s amazing that we have this on UA-cam to help us learn things that interest us, even if it’s just for the sake of learning more.
I’m a licensed professional massage therapist specializing in corrective techniques like myofascial release, myoskeletal realignment, deep tissue, and neuromuscular therapy. Imma live forEVER ‘cause my grip strength is insane.
My favorite grip strength exercise is Weck's "Dragon Roll": lateral movement with a jump rope without jumping over the rope. The Flow Rope teachers and rope-makers use larger diameter jump ropes and tie them with large grip handles. The Dragon Roll movement challenges grip strength and rewards a bit of pronation/supination in the DFAL/DBAL in every helical cycle. It's the only exercise I've found that develops the abductor digiti minimi muscle of each hand -- the "live long and prosper" muscle.
I’ve been rock climbing for the past 20+ years and can attest to the fact that, although I do have better-than-average grip strength, it is because of how much i love that activity. It gets me outside and keeps me super active. I plan on doing it and training for climbing as well as all the other health components that support it for the rest of my life!
As an artist who draws a lot of figures, and so forth , for sketching, drawings, and painting, I've done a ton of anatomy drawings over the many years, and thus I found this very interesting. And doubly so in my case, as I'm quite holistically oriented in my life-style (diet, exercise, etc.) for decades.. So, your video hit both these areas of interest for me- anatomical knowledge along with valuable health information. Excellent!
2 years ago, I tore (traction tear) the common flexor tendon (30%) in my left arm, it took 1 1/2 years to regain my grip strength, but the last measurement was 49 lbs. and though I lost about 5 lbs. of grip strength from the injury, and my hand still goes numb while i sleep, I feel I healed really well. In Nov of 2022 a a coworker manipulated equipment and a piece of that equipment hit me on the inside of the right elbow/ forearm., in February of 2023 I tripped at work and fell on the outside of the right elbow. X-rays show an old chip but otherwise all doctors (3 Ortho's) all say my arm is fine, yet it isn't, i started with 60 lbs. of grip strength and my last measurement was 35lbs. The pain isn't where I fell but where the equipment hit me. Work comp says they aren't responsible even though both injuries happened at work, and both were reported. The pain is the worst when I wake up, probably a 2-3. but the hand falls asleep, but the most important thing is that loss of grip strength.....do you have any ideas how i can build it back up my over strength has declined also in that arm. It's really annoying at this point because I used to kayak, hit the heavy bag and shot archery. The physical therapist said I can do none of those until I'm healed. Obviously, I didn't continue with PT because work comp won't cover it, any advice/ exercises you can suggest would be appreciated.
Thumbnail caught me off guard 😂.
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The fingernails too. It's funny how seeing the skin and nails makes you remember that this was a person once. I started imagining the person based on those finger tips. Wondering if they were male or female, fit it obese, young, middle aged or old.
Yeah seeing those nails and skin bring you right back to the fact this was a person.
They say the nails still grow when you die.
@@tommyagain38they don't.
In my 70s, I've noticed that my grip strength isn't what it was in my 50s or 60s.
However, it's nice to know that carrying heavy grocery bags back from the bus stop is helping. Moreover, I used to be a professional baker so kneading dough again should help.
I've studied the tendons and muscles of the hand multiple times before without fully remembering everything, but your anatomy lab illustrated explanation finally helped me learn it for good. You're a fantastic anatomy instructor. Thank you!
Jonathan is truly the most AMAZING anatomy instructor! I was blessed to him teach my anatomy class at the Utah College of Massage Therapy in 2012!
Unfortunately my class didn’t get the opportunity to attend the cadaver lab at the U😢
I’ve noticed that tendinitis (inflammation of the tendons) will negatively affect your grip strength and end up leaving you in excruciating pain.
This is caused my repetitive motions, over use, and it leads to a build up of scar tissue.
So give it rest, release the tension in the muscles and other tissues around the area. And get the inflammation under control. Inflammation is like a virus and can spread throughout other section of the body. So treat your body like the machine it is, keep up the maintenance, just like you would do with your car!
Sleep well
Eat well
And live well!
@3:41 i thought of something. If you were able to have 2 different colored gloves(that werent distracting) you could see what youre pointing out here better.
Im a 63 year old bricklayer. I run and cycle and have a very nutricious diet. My grip strength is as a result of decades of lifting bricks, blocks and trowels of mortar. If i live a long life itll be as a result of my overal lifestyle not because i have extremely good grip strength
I'm a licensed UA-cam member, arm flexer with 60 years of experience and I like watching your videos
3 compartment of the forearm:
1. Flexor compartment have 4 layer, first layer: pronator teres, flexor carpi radialis, palmaris longus, flexor carpi ulnaris; second layer: flexor digitorum superficialis; third layer: flexor digitorum profundus, flexor policis longus, fourth layer: pronator kuadratus
2. Mobile wad: brachioradialis, extensor carpi radialis longus, extensor carpi radialis brevis
3. Extensor compartment: superficial: anconeus, extensor digitorum communis, extensor digiti minimi, extensor carpi ulnaris; deep: extensor policis longus, extensor policis brevis, abductor policis longus, supinator
Only found 19 muscle, what muscle is the 20th?
"Does Grip Strength Really Help You Live Longer?" - Yes, if you are hanging from a cliff and holding on for dear life.
One month and I am the first one giving thumbs up? This is hilarious.
Good to know! I realised that whenever I paused my excercise (which includes grip training) for say; 3 weeks, tingles begins running from my elbow down to the fingers (especially the ring-and small fingers). When I resume the excercise again, the tingle stops.
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Lifting heavy weights improves both longevity and grip strength. If you have grip strength, chances are that you have been very active in your life, and that is what improves your longevity.
It's not grip strength in and of itself, it is a metric for what it represents. That the person is likely to be physically active and not a couch potato stuffing their pie-hole with processed trash food while binge watching Netflix. It's the same with the '40-pushup test' for cardiovascular health, it's not magic, it is simply a metric that indicates the person is physically active.
What?? That's so judgy. I was losing my grip due to "growth" on my tendons. After surgery and therapy, I am as good as new. Nothing to do with being a sack potato or not eating right.
Indeed
Them why do you feel offended? It clearly wasn't you @@mariee.5912
@@mariee.5912 You're missing the point.
When I read the articles saying grip strength is correlated with longevity, I interpreted the results as saying that strength was the key to longevity and that grip was the best proxy for measuring overall strength. After all, it’s hard to measure a person’s 1 rep max for squat, deadlift or bench press, especially for people who never worked out. Grip strength is the easiest strength measurement to take in a doctor’s office. But people interpreted those results as “you need to specifically improve your grip strength”. I see old guys at the gym doing dead hangs because of this, and I’m like, yeah that’s great but you’re missing the overall point.
Hey guys, I've been watching you folks for some time, but I am sure I have not seen all of the videos. I have a suggestion (if it has not already been done): Puberty and specifically related to hormones that cause teens to lose their minds. I have 5 teenagers and 3 of them are in the middle of the hormone induced chaos period of rebellion, tantrums and love interests. Yes, I have 5 teenagers, but 2 sets of twins. Let's say me and my co-parent are slowly losing our sanity. Could you maybe shed some light on the physical and chemical transitions that happen in this crazy years and maybe help us better understand how to deal with these people? As always, you guys are awesome and I love all the videos. :)
I do remember some about hormones... But maybe not teens. Maybe they won't do this because child cadavers are more traumatic for the public...
@@quietcell not necessarily child cadavers, but use the current ones to explain the issues. Teens can seem very crazy, it would be cool to understand in detail why. I know mine have their crazy moments.
I do work grip strength with rope climbing (only arms, no legs), rope pull ups and so on. This really works flexors, and some people may get golfers elbow because of that . If they don't also work their extensors to keep both within some balance.
I was hoping extensors would be covered too as just about no one thinks about it till they get golfers elbow and go to a physical therapist that will have them work on extensors. You can already be doing this and not go through dealing with golfers elbow.
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What an amazing channel. Most professional presentations and final result. Deserve all success. Love xx
Hello!! I love your videos!! I wish they were Spanish dubbed versions. So much of the Hispanic community goes of off superstitious beliefs. Don't get me wrong we be having some miracle medicine down south, but the details of this video are so detailed I know this would teach them some amazing human anatomy.
I volunteer to be hired! Lol I have a nice voice is what I've been told often by others lol
Lol I like that you found someone to act out the grip strength scenario at 9:10
No one has better grip then Nathan Drake or the various Assassin's creed. Mtf somehow manages to stop their 300km/h falls with absolutely no damage every single time.
A couple years ago I tried too hard to open a jar (which was very, very hard) and injured one of the muscles around the pointer finger of my right hand.
It's been a while but I still have slight pain every now and then. I've also never put 100% of my strength to force something open with my hands anymore. If it's too hard, I'd rather let the jar/bottle/whatever left unopened than injure my hand again.
7:00 Weak grip = potential cardiovascular issues
9:00 How to increase grip strength
The largest parts of both sensory and motor cortex of the brain are dedicated to hand and fingers. So training grip regularly would also keep a large portion of the cerebral cortex healthier.
Dude, no joke. I was actually thinking about this today because I've noticed that I lose my grip on pull exercise days.
Yeah, at a certain point you need to get some lifting straps to help. The back is usually much stronger than forearms, lol.
I paralysed my left hand when I was twenty and it has never fully recovered (although I can use it now). It has limited me in so many ways and sucks to think that it may lead to an early death now as well (although I had my suspicions). Take care of your hands, feet, neck, and back.
One needs good grip strength for everything other than walking, jumping and kicking.
Grip strength is one of those things that most person don't think about in their daily life, but we use it A LOT. The weaker our grips, the less activity that we will do subconsciously, which in return weaken more of our muscles overall, which made our grip even weaker. It's just my own observation on older people who kinda going through this phase.
As someone who trained BJJ in my 40s I can say it feels surprisingly good to develop grip strenght. I think most of us undervalue how many times we CAN split in other muscle groups if we have a firm grip and use our arms too.
Fat grips are also a good way to passively increase grip strength when resistance training, like adding fat grips to dumbbells during the farmers carry exercise.
Wrist rollers don't increase grip strength as much as forearm strength but it doesn't hurt and they're easy to make.
I have an adjustable grip strength trainer that goes from 55lbs to 198lbs, I keep it in my work bag and use it almost daily but I am not a rock climber.
That said I hit a plateau with my deadlifting in that I can't go too much heavier or do more reps because my grip strength is lagging behind.
I also do Parkour and Striking Martial Arts, and am starting grappling soon, so great grip is needed for those as well.
Yes.The GYM is where I am two tmes a week.Lots of strength here.5 ft 4 in 117 lbs Work outs + weights at home ❤ 79 yrs
Watch out 😉
I remember, not too long ago, when every 8th person was getting operations on their carpel tunnel. I haven't seen a single carpel tunnel operation since.
Hola Jonathan Bennion del instituto de la anatomia humana mucho gusto me llamo Diana Mendez soy una espectadora y me gusta tu canal gracias por brindarnos tus conocimientos lo bonito que es nuestro cuerpo gracias buen video ❤
*Bottom Line:* Strong grip strength does *not* guarantee health and longevity. But if you are exercising and active -- particularly with your upper body -- you're more likely to have a strong grip AND be a healthier human. So, HOW you arrive at the grip strength is more important than merely having it. ✊👊👋
I have incredible grip strength. I'm in the kitchen exhaust cleaning industry. Sometimes every square inch of these systems have to be scraped out using sharp hand tools like giant chisels. After years of doing that night after night I have developed supergrip.
Sitting in my california home rolling weed and then I hear "4...20". I thought Jonathan was taking us in a different direction for a second 😆
Aside from the correlation from healthy lifestyles, I also think there's something uniquely mental about really testing your grip strength that is different from other kinds of strength training.
I did karate for 15 years, and a way I would often be told to practice making a fist was to just focus on holding it and making it tighter and tighter over the course of several minutes. It's kind of crazy how hard we can clench our fists if we really focus. You can get it so tight and hold it long enough that it takes its own mental effort to unclench the fist when you're done. I'm sure some of that is just the muscles being "stuck", but the only way to get to that point is to push past what you believe is possible.
Rock climbers: can you talk about pulley injuries???
Brilliant video! Facilitating to see the linkage between exercise, strength, and wellness. As I get older, I am more aware of making myself falls resilient; this vid drives home the point. The anatomy lesson was very interesting. I hadn’t stopped to think about the muscles and tendons in the forearm. Great work!
A general marker of overall strength. A lot of things down stream have to work correctly to be physically strong.
I use sled with weights, push and pull besides my daily work as a Rolfer....I am 77 this year and have no problems physically, especially not with hands
Considering that grip strength tends to be the limiter for absolute total strength (dead lift capacity), weak grip is a strong indicator of overall weakness/feebleness. It would be an anomaly to find individuals with abnormally high overall strength with average to low grip strength.
So, people with high grip strength have higher overall strength, developed musculature, and as a result, tend to live longer than those with weak grip strength, low overall strength, and underdeveloped/atrophied musculature.
Wow there are are so many incorrect assumptions and fallacies here I don’t have time to list them all but suffice to say your analysis is simply incorrect.
Highly educative & professional. Was not ready for those fingers tips visuals
I believe you are a rock climber and dont forget us motocross racers, we are hanging on for dear life to 😅.. excellent video
Motocross is the hardest sport in the world 100%
Great point!
@@hookedonbasscornwall I thought was triathlon, to each his own
@@savagepro9060 have you ever rode motocross?
Yep! 3 hours this morning....Braaaap
If I remember correctly, and that was a long time ago, I seem to recall that flexor digitorum superficialis has two tendons in the forearm in some people but only one tendon in others. The latter is considered evolutionary more recent.
I hear a lot about people letting go, and then dying. So yes, I would say it’s pretty important.
very interesting! i have a condition know as hEDS. basically an invisible disability. it causes my connective tissue to be very loose over my whole body. unfortunately it led to my joint dislocating and has impacted my life highly including my grip strength. i'm curious how someone like me with their muscles and connective tissues issues, how my tendons and stuff would look? its so amazing how complex the human body is.
The finger tips with skin and nails suddenly hits me that this was a real bro at some stage
So what if a person is rotating there hand it seems like there bone is rotating in there skin wat is happening there i need to know
Question: So, I learned from this video that the FDS is responsible for bending the PIP joints of the pointer to pinky fingers, and the FDP bends the DIP joints of them as well. Why does it seem common to be able to isolate the bending of the PIP joints of each finger, but then the DIP bend seems to commonly cause both the ring and pinky DIP joints to bend together as a unit? Is there an anatomical reason for this?
Thank you for all you do, I truly appreciate you sharing your knowledge and educating us on the human body. It's so interesting and humbling.
When I die I’m leaving my body to Jonathan so he can play with my tendons.
As a bass player, My grip strength would crush you all
10:57 No way! You barely look a few years over 18! Thank you for all the amazing knowledge!
QUESTION:
Were the fingertips
part of that cadaver, OR, is artificial?
If I was left hanging on the cliff of Life....I'm not now~ I really dig your channel and info....this past 5 years or so. Posture, tone and not a lot of extra baggage~
I have mean case of trigger finger in my right middle finger is there a way I can fix it myself?
I get trigger finger often in about half my fingers. I put a brace on the finger(s) affected for about a month and it recovers. I usually have to repeat the process every 12-18 months.
The brace I use is a thick strip of foam that covers the top and bottom of the whole finger, and held straight by a long strip of metal that bends in a tight U shape outside the foam, holding the whole digit straight out from the palm so it can't be bent at any joint. I then tape it on with surgical tape.
But if you cheat and use the finger, it just sets recovery back. And yes, if this is your middle finger, it gives you an excuse to flip everyone off for a month or so.
This is excellent. I use monkee grip rope grips on my pull up bar and they have made grip training convenient.
100% point missed 😅
@@marcdaniels9079 no marc. shameless plug
Thanks, I always found a need to talk about the other than the knuckle joint but didn't have any name. Now I can just say interphalangeal joint and everyone will know what I'm trying to talk about. And obviously proximal and distal to make it more clear.
It’s also how much you grip and what you’re gripping.. phones for example, are destroying hand function by doing mass light work! Ppl who phone a lot generally have weaker hands, vs someone that trains or works hard.
Why you leave the finger tips on the cadavers?it doesnt bother me orn anything,just curious
It's helpful for students that come into the lab to be able to visualize how many layers had to be removed to get down to the deeper structures
@@theanatomylab that makes sense,thank you.
thank you comments for the cliffs notes
I mean, when I had multiorgan failure and was definitely 98% expected to croak, the physical therapy assessment lady (I'm sure she had a job title, but I don't for the life of me remember anything that happened for a couple years straight back then) apparently said that the one thing of mine that remained well above average was my grip strength.
And look, I didn't die after all!
*COINCIDENCE?* I think NOT!
I first learned about grip strength in the book Outlive. Could you please provide an overview of the book? I’ve read it once and am about to finish it for the second time. I love your channel and would appreciate more content about longevity, specifically focusing on: Nutrition, Exercise (cardio, resistance, grip and stability), Sleep, Emotional health
0:12 *air horn intensifies*
Mother Nature, one true memer. 🤟🏻
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