You ask your patient to make a tight fist with their fingers…
You ask your patient to make a tight fist with their fingers flexed and their wrist is in a fully flexed position but they are not able to. You then have the patient put their wrist in a neutral position and they are now able to make a tight fist with their fingers flexed. What term describes why the patient was not able to make a tight fist while the wrist was fully flexed?
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You are attempting to assess your patient’s end-feel with shoulder flexion ROM. You attempt to bring their right shoulder through PROM and the patient abruptly stops you at about 90 degrees of shoulder flexion. You feel like the joint has more available range but the patient will not let you move their arm further through that available ROM. What would you classify the end-feel as?
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