機能障害を改善するための関節可動域評価の工夫

抄録

Evaluation is a very important part of the process of providing physical therapy. After selecting movements based on the patient’s daily activities and narrowing down the problematic joint movements based on movement observation, it is necessary to evaluate the patient and to establish the functional impairment. Sometimes there are cases where problematic joint range of motion can be deduced from the movement, but no range-of-motion measurement method exists. The patient may be diagnosed with joint range of motion limitation based on movement observation, and treatment may be developed, but no change in movement is observed. In this section, we introduce methods for evaluating joint range of motion with awareness of the axis of motion, and explain how to evaluate external rotation of the lower leg together with an explanation of the correct interpretation of the motion.