Spearman’s partial correlations between health-related physical fitness, symptom severity and upper limb function and physical activity, controlled for sex and age
| Cardiorespiratory fitness | Muscular strength | Body composition | |||
| VO2peak | ACSM category | Handgrip strength | BMI (kg/m2) | FFMI | |
| Symptom severity and upper limb function | |||||
| QuickDASH Questionnaire | −0.31 (p=0.155) | −0.26 (p=0.227) | −0.24 (p=0.268) | 0.38 (p=0.073) | 0.17 (p=0.444) |
| PRWHE questionnaire | −0.19 (p=0.376) | −0.21 (p=0.340) | −0.24 (p=0.269) | 0.30 (p=0.159) | 0.21 (p=0.344) |
| PDI | −0.30 (p=0.167) | −0.20 (p=0.353) | −0.21 (p=0.349) | 0.48 (p=0.022)* | 0.30 (p=0.169) |
| NRS-Pain | −0.10 (p=0.640) | −0.23 (p=0.289) | −0.12 (p=0.574) | 0.24 (p=0.268) | 0.25 (p=0.260) |
| Physical activity | |||||
| NNGB | 0.20 (p=0.354) | 0.06 (p=0.781) | −0.138 (p=0.530) | −0.19 (p 0.380) | −0.12 (p 0.589) |
| Fitnorm | 0.58 (p=0.004)* | 0.54 (p=0.008)* | 0.174 (p=0.428) | −0.23 (p 0.301) | −0.06 (p 0.790) |
*Statistically significant (p<0.05).
ACSM, American College of Sports Medicine; BMI, body mass index; FFMI, Fat-Free Mass Index; NNGB, Nederlandse Norm Gezond Bewegen (Dutch Healthy Physical Activity Guidelines); NRS-Pain, Numeric Pain Rating Scale; PDI, Pain Disability Index; PRWHE, Patient-Rated Wrist/Hand Evaluation; QuickDASH, Quick Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand.