Sentence examples for a normal range of motion from inspiring English sources

Clearly, there is a difference between spinal flexion as a normal range of motion that is necessary to do daily movements like tying your shoes, and a "loaded" lumbar flexion that occurs in a pose like halasana, or even a standing forward bending movement with the arms extended from the body.

Both lower extremities had an excellent joint stability and a normal range of motion.

An anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction should only be performed in a "quiet" knee with a normal range of motion.

Wülker and Rudert [ 37] cautioned clinicians that contracture symptoms might be worsened if excessive "forceful attempt to restore a normal range of motion" is made.

By contrast, V1 IN-ablated animals displayed very little hindlimb movement, in contrast to the forelimbs that showed a normal range of motion.

3 years after surgery, physical examinations revealed a normal range of motion, a negative Lachman test, a negative pivot shift test, and a within 3 mm side-to-side anterior drawer test (by KT-1000 with 134 N (30 lbs) at 25° of knee flexion) in all patients.

This so called "zone-of-compliance" contains a combined, stem/cup orientation to position both components in a way that the normal range-of-motion (ROM) is contained within an impingement-free prosthetic ROM, aiming for at least 130° flexion, 40° extension, 50° abduction, 50° adduction, 40° external, and 80° internal prosthetic rotation.

Greenman [ 25] states: "Joint dysfunction is characterized by findings of misalignment, relative fixation, loss of normal range-of-motion and end-play, tenderness, and tissue texture abnormality" [p. 13 14].

Of the eight patients he treated, five were immobilized for 3 weeks and had a normal range of subtalar motion and no complaint of pain.

The mean misalignment was found to be less than 1.5° flexion/extension, ab/adduction and internal/external rotation for both the pelves and femora; this equates to less than 2.5% of a normal range of hip motion.

Only three patients (16.7%) showed a near normal range of motion of the subtalar joint with an average range of inversion to eversion movement of 96% from normal (range, 95 98%), while the majority of patients (72.3%) showed an average range of motion of 72.2% from normal (range, 63 80%).