Table 2.
Severity and frequency of range of motion limitation by joint muscle action (degrees)
| Joint | Muscle Action | Severity |
Total (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mild | Moderate | Severe | |||
| Shoulder | Flexion | 95 | 70 | 22 | 187 (13) |
| Extension | 6 | 24 | 19 | 49 (4) | |
| Abduction | 62 | 65 | 8 | 135 (10) | |
| Adduction | 5 | 19 | 26 | 50 (4) | |
| Hip | Flexion | 20 | 14 | 1 | 35 (3) |
| Extension | 12 | 16 | 9 | 37 (3) | |
| Abduction | 7 | 18 | 2 | 27 (2) | |
| Adduction | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 (1) | |
| Elbow | Flexion | 74 | 28 | 9 | 111 (8) |
| Extension | 68 | 6 | 0 | 74 (5) | |
| Pronation | 12 | 11 | 7 | 30 (2) | |
| Supination | 19 | 20 | 12 | 51 (4) | |
| Knee | Flexion | 50 | 35 | 14 | 99 (7) |
| Extension | 49 | 0 | 0 | 49 (4) | |
| Wrist | Flexion | 27 | 5 | 4 | 36 (3) |
| Extension | 27 | 13 | 2 | 42 (3) | |
| Radial deviation | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 (1) | |
| Ulnar deviation | 6 | 12 | 3 | 21 (2) | |
| Ankle | Dorsiflexion | 7 | 27 | 44 | 78 (6) |
| Plantarflexion | 14 | 5 | 14 | 33 (2) | |
| Inversion | 5 | 12 | 11 | 28 (2) | |
| Eversion | 5 | 7 | 11 | 23 (2) | |
| Neck | Forward flexion | 14 | 4 | 1 | 19 (1) |
| Right rotation | 8 | 17 | 6 | 31 (2) | |
| Left rotation | 9 | 13 | 8 | 31 (2) | |
| Extension | 5 | 15 | 5 | 25 (2) | |
| Right lateral flexion | 9 | 9 | 5 | 23 (2) | |
| Left lateral flexion | 11 | 9 | 3 | 23 (2) | |
| Lumbar | Forward flexion | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 (1) |
| Right lateral flexion | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 (1) | |
| Left lateral flexion | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 (1) | |
| Thoracic | Forward flexion | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 (1) |
| Right rotation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | |
| Left rotation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | |
| Total (%) | 644 (46) | 493 (35) | 259 (19) | 1396 | |
Each impaired joint muscle action is assigned a severity rating determined by dividing the normal range of motion value equally in thirds (mild, moderate, and severe).