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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Burn Care Res. 2017 Jan-Feb;38(1):e328–e336. doi: 10.1097/BCR.0000000000000380

Table 3.

Severity and frequency of range of motion limitation by joint muscle action (degrees)

Joint Muscle Action Severity
Mild Moderate Severe Total

Shoulder (%) Flexion 248 (57) 168 (38) 22 (5) 438
Extension 15 (27) 10 (18) 31 (55) 56
Abduction 132 (49) 127 (47) 13 (5) 272
Adduction 3 (8) 2 (5) 32 (86) 37
Hip (%) Flexion 63 (68) 26 (28) 4 (4) 93
Extension 10 (18) 16 (28) 31 (54) 57
Abduction 20 (40) 27(54) 3 (6) 50
Adduction 3 (11) 9 (33) 15 (56) 27
Elbow (%) Flexion 205 (75) 57(21) 13 (5) 275
Extension 270 (90) 29 (10) 0 (0) 299
Pronation 44 (61) 13 (18) 15 (21) 72
Supination 92(54) 46 (27) 33 (19) 171
Knee(%) Flexion 156 (57) 104(38) 15 (5) 275
Extension 108 (98) 0 (0) 2 (2) 110
Wrist (%) Flexion 69(59) 39 (34) 8 (7) 116
Extension 82 (62) 39 (30) 11 (8) 132
Radial deviation 15 (58) 6 (23) 5 (19) 26
Ulnar deviation 21 (54) 16 (41) 2 (5) 39
Ankle (%) Dorsiflexion 34 (17) 56 (28) 111 (55) 201
Plantarflexion 48 (31) 24 (15) 83 (54) 155
Inversion 7 (21) 17 (52) 9 (27) 33
Eversion 7 (21) 19 (58) 7 (21) 33
Neck (%) Forward flexion 85 (89) 7 (7) 3 (3) 95
Right rotation 8 (32) 13 (52) 4 (16) 25
Left rotation 9 (36) 16(64) 0 (0) 25
Extension 5 (13) 21 (55) 12(32) 38
Right lateral flexion 21 (68) 6 (19) 4 (13) 31
Left lateral flexion 19 (61) 7 (23) 5 (16) 31
Lumbar (%) Forward flexion 1 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1
Right lateral flexion 1 (50) 1 (50) 0 (0) 2
Left lateral flexion 2 (67) 1 (33) 0 (0) 3
Thoracic (%) Forward flexion 6 (75) 1 (13) 1 (13) 8
Right rotation 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0
Left rotation 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0
Total (%) 1809 (56) 923(29) 494 (15) 3226