Sentence examples for passive elevation from inspiring English sources

When the physiotherapist starts passive elevation, the patient is asked to be careful not to actively elevate the affected arm.

After 25 days, passive elevation, abduction, and circumduction of the shoulder was initiated.

Pendulum motion of the shoulder joint was started in 2 days and followed by passive elevation and rotation of the shoulder joints in the following week.

The movement was a passive elevation of the subject's right index finger by a lever (angle 135°), which allowed separating the action from its somatic effect.

These autoreceptors actually trigger a strong inhibition of 5-HT neuron firing rate, counteracting almost totally the passive elevation of 5-HT extracellular levels that the above cited molecules induce by blocking the inactivation (catabolism or re-uptake) of the transmitter [9] [10].

Range of motion was measured for active and passive elevation, abduction, and rotation.

20 Participants also had to show a Neer impingement sign (passive shoulder elevation with scapular fixed) or have positive results on the Hawkins impingement test (shoulder elevation to 90°, elbow flexed to 90°, then passively internally rotate the humerus).

Cutoffs estimated by Youden index NPV negative predictive value, ΔCDPV carotid peak velocity variation, SVV stroke volume variation, PLR Delta SVI rise in stroke volume index after passive leg elevation test, PPV pulse pressure variation aPositive predictive value.

PLE = passive leg elevation; RV = right ventricle.

HDT = head-down tilt; PLE = passive leg elevation.

Passive leg elevation must therefore be performed cautiously in coronary patients with a reduced RVEF.