passive movement

Medical people call it passive movement, but it's not really passive.

How about a few passive movements before your dinner?"

On forced duction testing there is resistance to passive movement of the globe.

It does not depend on imposed speed and can be elicited at very low speeds of passive movement.

These essentially passive movements occurs during defecation and labour.

Active and passive movements may be limited because of pain, especially abduction and internal rotation.

If this is done, one notices that the visual world seems to have "moved" as a result of this passive movement of the eye ball.

Joint mobilization, a type of passive movement of a skeletal joint.

Spasticity is a special form of rigidity that is present only at the start of passive movement.

Spinal mobilization is a type of passive movement of a spinal segment or region.

Spinal mobilization employ a range of techniques or schools of approaches in delivering the passive movement.

There is no evidence that passive movements by a child, forced to engage in crawling movements, affects neurological organization.

After transport, involving passive movements and active migration, germ cells arrive at the developing gonads.

Patients may be too tense, for fear of producing vertigo symptoms, which can prevent the necessary brisk passive movements for the test.

Gegenhalten is a catatonic phenomenon in which the subject opposes all passive movements with the same degree of force as applied by the examiner.

Ahmed Harrak Srifi was with the royalist passive movement.

During the recovery period of neurapraxia, it is essential that the joints constantly undergo passive movement in order to preserve proper mobility.

For example, if a patient has over active gamma motor neurons, there will be a resistance to passive movement causing stiffness, also called spasticity.

Paratonia or gegenhalten is defined as "a form of hypertonia with an involuntary variable resistance during passive movement."

Monitor for the classic 5 P's: pain, pallor, parasthesias, pain with passive movement, and pulselessness.

'Leadpipe' rigidity results when an increase in muscle tone causes a sustained resistance to passive movement throughout the whole range of motion, with no fluctuations.

These spasms occur in response to environmental stimuli such as voluntary or passive movements, and unexpected somatosensory or auditory stimulation.

On examination a diminished resistance to passive movement will be noted and muscles may feel abnormally soft and limp on palpation.

It may help attenuate spasms in some patients, but physiotherapy should be used cautiously in patients for whom passive movements trigger spasms.

Saringer met Dr R.B. Salter in 1978 to begin a 20 year long collaboration designing and building passive movement devices based on Salter's work.