Hinge joints allow flexion and extension only ... joints also allow types of movement called abduction, adduction, rotation and circumduction. Abduction – movement away from the midline of ...

Background Stiff landings with less knee flexion and high vertical ground reaction force have shown to be associated with increased risk of ACL injuries (Leppänen et al. 2016). The association between ...

Potential predictors of ROM recovery such as age, sex, mechanism of injury, type of surgery ... operatively was defined as flexion of < =100° or external rotation of < =30° under anesthesia.

Flexion – bending a joint ... arms and legs back to their original position from a jumping jack movement. Rotation – this is where the limb moves in a circular movement around a fixed joint ...

Stiffness was defined as passive flexion of < =100° or passive ... mechanism of injury as categorical data, having a rotator cuff repair, an endocrine condition (diabetes, thyroid or hypothyroid ...