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At what level of spinal cord injury is full shoulder movement wrist extension and dorsflextion and some finger movement maintained?
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∙ 15y ago
This would most likely be at T1, possibly C7.
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How can people measure suppleness?
Flexibility is measured by the range of motion. The range of movement is measured by using a goniometer: hip flexion, hip extension, hip adbuction, hip adduction, shoulder adduction, shoulder fexion, shoulder extension, elbow flexion/extension, and knee flexion/extension.mile run
What is the name of the movement the rotator cuffs allows the shoulder to make?
The rotator cuff allows the shoulder to perform movements such as rotation, abduction, and extension.
Exercise for sagittal plane?
Sagital Plane Exercises are a forward to backward movement or front to back movement. Inverse Crunch Floor to waist Front Squats Knee Flexion and extension Trunk Flexion and Extension Shoulder flexion and extenstion
Muscle that adducts shoulder and causes extension of the shoulder joint?
The muscles which produce shoulder extension are: Latissimus Dosi & Pectoralis Major.
What movement can the shoulder joint not do despite being a multi-axial joint that allows a variety of movements?
Flexion, extension/hyperextension, trabsverse horizontal abduction, circumduction.If you think about the movements that you can do at your shoulder, you can figure this question out yourself. When in the anatomical position, we can perform flexion and extension,the forward and backward (respectively) movements of our arm at the shoulder joint. There is also abduction and adduction, which is the movement of rising our arm out to our sides, away from our body (abduction) and towards our body (adduction). Finally, there is also medial rotation and lateral rotation of the shoulder joint, in which we rotate the head of humerus in the shoulder-joint cavity (glenoid cavity). You may hear the combined movements of flexion, extension, abduction and adduction referred to as circumduction.
What muscle group is the primary mover of shoulder and elbow extension?
Shoulder extension is controlled by: Long head of the triceps, the last, and the teres major
Muscle that adducts the shoulder and causes extension of the shoulder joints?
latissimus dorsi
Outward extension of the shoulder bone is the?
acromion
What movement does the shoulder joint allow?
The shoulder joint is a ball and socket joint, which is the type that allows the greatest range of movement. it allows the arm to move forward and backward (as when you swing your arms while walking); abduction and adduction (as in jumping jacks); and many intermediate movements.
What joints are used in the up phase of a push up?
That is flexion and extension at shoulder joint.
What is the joint action during the eccentric phase of a biceps curl?
A concentric movement would be flexing the elbow and curling a dumbbell towards the shoulder, an eccentric contraction would be the opposite movement ie bringing the dumbbell back down towards the thigh.
What does the latissimus do?
adduction (bringing arms in towards the body) and extension at the shoulder
