TY - JOUR AU - Vairo, Giampietr L. AU - Duffey, Michele L. AU - Owens, Brett D. AU - Cameron, Kenneth L. PY - 2012 DA - 2012/09/10 TI - Clinical descriptive measures of shoulder range of motion for a healthy, young and physically active cohort JO - Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation, Therapy & Technology SP - 33 VL - 4 IS - 1 AB - The objective of this innovative research study was to describe clinical shoulder complex range of motion (ROM) measures for a young, healthy, and physically active population. This investigation represents a cross-sectional experiment conducted at a military academy-based sports medicine center. Military cadets with no history of shoulder complex injury were assessed within two months of enrollment in the academy; 548 men (18.8 ± 1.0 yr, 75.2 ± 12.2 kg, 178.3 ± 7.4 cm) and 74 women (18.7 ± 0.9 yr, 63.2 ± 8.9 kg, 165.2 ± 6.9 cm) participated. Descriptive measures included cross-body adduction (CAD), flexion (FLX), external rotation (ER0) with the shoulder complex in adduction and elbow flexed to 90°, internal and external rotation (IR, ER) with the shoulder complex at 90° of abduction and elbow flexed to 90° as well as arc (ARC) of IR-ER using standardized clinical quantification techniques. Bilateral and sex differences were evaluated using dependent and independent t-tests, respectively. Percentiles by arm dominance and sex were also calculated for all ROM measures. SN - 1758-2555 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1758-2555-4-33 DO - 10.1186/1758-2555-4-33 ID - Vairo2012 ER -