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active-assisted range of motion

noun

C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Joint movement performed by the patient with additional help from the therapist or the other limb when the muscles are too weak to complete it alone.

In the early post-operative phase we used active-assisted range of motion, guiding the arm through elevation with a pulley.

Similar: AAROM

Topic: Physiotherapy in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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