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    Correct posture is essential for correct body movement. Without correct posture, muscle imbalances and non-contact injuries may occur. One of the most used screening tests to find these imbalances within an individual is the Functional Movement System (FMS) according to McCall, Carling, Davison, Nedelec, Le Gall, Berthoin, and Dupont (2015). The Functional Movement System is designed to recognize potential weaknesses and risk of injury (Cook, 2010). Therefore, it will be vital for health professionals

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    The six fundamental movements of Major Body Segments are flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation, and circumduction. Flexion is a decrease in the angle between two body segments. Flexion occurs at the shoulder, elbow, hip, and knee joints. An example exercise is doing curls on the arm curl machine. Extension is an increase in the angle between two body segments, or the return from flexion. An example exercise is by working on the leg extension. Abduction is the movement of a body segment

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    The six fundamental movements of major body segments are, abduction, extension, flexion, rotation, adduction, and circumduction. Abduction is the movement of a body part away from the midline, an example of that would be lateral raises using a dumbbell. Another example would be the lateral shuffle. It targets the muscles of the thighs, hips, and buttocks. An extension movement would be the return from flexion and an exercise for this would-be leg extensions. An example of a flexion movement is a

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    |Flexion, Abduction, horizontal adduction | |Right Shoulder |Flexion, Abduction, horizontal adduction | |Left Elbow |Flexion

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    Six Primary Movements

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    There are six primary movements that occur at the joints between the body segment; flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation, and circumduction.  1)Flexion happens when a decrease in the angle between two body segments happens like in the shoulder, elbow, hips and knee joints. An  1)Flexion happens when a decrease in the angle between two body segments happens like in the shoulder, elbow, hips and knee joints. An example could be when using a dumbbell of 10 pounds to curl the biceps, flexion

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    Anterior deltoid Lateral 3rd of clavicle Deltoid tuberosity Shoulder abduction, flexion, medial rotation, and horizontal adduction Middle deltoid Acromion process Deltpid tuberosity Shoulder abduction Posterior deltoid Spie of scapula Deltoid tuberosity Shoulder abduction, extension, hyperextension, lateral rotation, horizontal Pectoralis minor Anterior surface, 3rd through

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    is three times more likely to be involved than right eye. Reason for this is unknown. The characteristic features of the syndrome are: severe limitation of abduction of the affected eye; less marked limitation of adduction of the same eye.; retraction of the eyeball on attempted adduction, with associated

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    clavicular action of the pectoralis major is internal rotation, horizontal adduction, flexion abduction and adduction. The sternal pectoralis major has an origin on the anterior surfaces of costal cartilage of the first 6 ribs and adjacent portion of the sternum. The sternal insertion is the groove of the humerus. The intended action of the sternal pectoralis major is internal rotation, horizontal adduction, extension, and adduction of the glenohumeral joint. An example from the radioulnar joint is the

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    When the arm is brought back, there is adduction with a slight downward rotation at the shoulder griddle and at the shoulder joint there is a horizontal abduction and external rotation and extension. There is still flexion within the elbow and the wrists are still in a neutral position with a slight

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    ACL Injury Analysis

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    translation of tibia in relation to femur, putting strain on the ACL and possibly rupture the ligament (Renström, Arms et al. 1986, DeMorat, Weinhold et al. 2004, Withrow, Huston et al. 2006). Furthermore, landing and cutting manoeuvres produce abduction, adduction and rotational torques about the hip and knee (Besier, Lloyd et al. 2001). Without an opposing force to these torques the loaded leg(s) will be forced into the valgus position with the femur adducted and internally rotated, the tibia externally rotated

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