BACKGROUND Measuring range of motion (ROM) in the shoulder joint is important for the diagnosis and monitoring of change over time. To what degree passive ROM can be trusted as a reliable outcome measure was examined as part of an on-going randomized controlled trial for patients with shoulder capsulitis. The aim of this study was to examine intertester reliability of passive ROM in the shoulde...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Active stretching is purported to stretch the shortened muscle and simultaneously strengthen the antagonist muscle. The purpose of this study was to determine whether active and passive stretching results in a difference between groups at improving hip extension range of motion in patients with hip flexor muscle tightness. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Thirty-three patients with...

During self-motion, the world normally appears stationary. In part, this may be due to reductions in visual motion signals during self-motion. In 8 experiments, the authors used magnitude estimation to characterize changes in visual speed perception as a result of biomechanical self-motion alone (treadmill walking), physical translation alone (passive transport), and both biomechanical self-mot...

During self-motion, the world normally appears stationary. In part, this may be due to reductions in visual motion signals during self-motion. In eight experiments using magnitude estimation to characterize changes in visual speed perception as a result of biomechanical self-motion alone (treadmill walking), physical translation alone (passive transport) and both biomechanical self-motion and p...

OBJECTIVE Most children with cerebral palsy have increased muscle tension in the lower extremities, which inevitably leads to abnormal gait characteristics. Proper management of excessive muscle tension is therefore of great importance. The aim of this study was to explore the effects of continuous passive motion on children with cerebral palsy, regarding their lower extremity spastic hypertoni...

mechanical weeding is one of the non-chemical methods to control weeds. in this paper a ‎new mechanism has been presented for mechanical cultivation. the machine works based on ‎the manual tools operation, which farmers still use in small scale for weeding and consists of a ‎number of four-bar linkage mechanisms. each mechanism consists of a blade which moves ‎forward (active course) and backwa...

We compared the effects of continuous passive motion with those of intermittent active motion on the results of the resurfacing with autogenous periosteal grafts of full-thickness defects on the articular surface of rabbit patellae. Of 45 rabbits with defects, 30 received grafts. Fifteen of these had continuous passive motion for two weeks and intermittent active motion for four weeks; the othe...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the use of continuous passive motion (CPM) of the digits in combination with limb elevation to reduce hand edema. The effects of 30 min of CPM of the digits with the limb elevated were compared with the effects of 30 min of limb elevation alone. Each of 16 subjects with hand edema of varied etiology received both treatments, one on each ...

A literature review was conducted to determine the most effective postoperative therapy regimens for metacarpophalangeal (MCP) arthroplasty. The main difference between the regimens was the use of passive MCP extension over active extension and splinting in MCP flexion over splinting in extension. One study did not find continuous passive motion to be significantly beneficial for gaining hand s...