CONTEXT Proprioception is the basic element of the spontaneous control of movement, balance and joint stability. Therefore, it is necessary for the execution of walking and daily and sport activities. Loss of proprioception of the knee, which may cause a new injury, is important to evaluate the position sense of the joint during the rehabilitation period. However, the evaluation methods that ar...

BACKGROUND Even though technological progress has provided us with more and more sophisticated equipment for making goniometric measurements, the most commonly used clinical tools are still the universal goniometer and, to a lesser extent, the inclinometer. There is, however, no published study so far that uses an inclinometer for measurements in children with cerebral palsy (CP). The objective...

Objective: To assess the effect of immobilization versus early range motion exercises in treating primary arthroscopic rotator cuff repair secondary to full-thickness tear. Design: Parallel group randomized clinical trial. Participants: 30 patients with tear participated study. Interventions: Patients were divided into two groups, 15 each group. The first (A) received (ROM) started 2 weeks post...

BACKGROUND Radiographs are used to monitor thoracic kyphosis in individuals with certain pathologies (e.g. osteoporosis), exposing patients to potentially harmful radiation. Thus, other measures for monitoring the progression of thoracic kyphosis are desirable. The gravity-dependent inclinometer has been shown to be reliable but its validity as a measure of thoracic kyphosis has not been invest...

CONTEXT Joint-position sense (JPS) plays a critical role in the stability of shoulder joint. Restoration of JPS is essential to improve rehabilitation outcomes in individuals with shoulder injury. However, the number of affordable and reliable shoulder-JPS measurement methods for everyday clinical practice is limited. OBJECTIVE To estimate reliability and validity of 3 simple shoulder-JPS mea...

CONTEXT New methods are being validated to easily evaluate the knee joint position sense (JPS) due to its role in sports movement and the risk of injury. However, no studies to date have considered the open kinetic chain (OKC) technique, despite the biomechanical differences compared to closed kinetic chain movements. OBJECTIVE To analyze the validity and reliability of a digital inclinometer...

Background/aim: The self-administered neck mobility assessment tool (S-ROM-Neck) is the subjective cervical region range of motion (S-ROM) scale. study aimed to demonstrate reliability and validity Turkish version S-ROM-Neck in patients with chronic pain. Materials methods: A cross-sectional was conducted a total 60 pain Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Clinic Pamukkale University Hospital betwe...

With regard to the nonlinearity, installation errors and other uncertainties existing in biaxial inclination sensors of borehole inclinometer, this article contrastively applies traditional curve fitting method and artificial neural network theory in the error correction work of inclinometer. Besides, this article also establishes the coordinate transformation model and gives details about the ...