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Table 1 Maximal segmental flexion angle of this and other studies[1, 6, 9, 31], range of motion (RoM) of knee, hip, pelvic-lumbar and lumbar-thoracic rotations (in degree) in the sagittal plane as well as the RoM of the curvatures (1/m) of the lumbar and the thoracic spine

From: Kinetic and kinematic differences between deadlifts and goodmornings

    

This study

 

Brown, 1985

 

Escamilla, 2001

Escamilla, 2000

McGuigan, 1996

   

GM (25%)

DL (25%)

DL (50%)

DL (269%)

DL (197%)

DL (181%)

DL (289%)

DL (254%)

Maximal segmental flexion angle

knee [°]

Mean

5.3

107.8*

103.4*

57.5

69.2

59.0

56.0

60.0

 

SD

6.7

22.4

22.6

5.7

8.2

12.0

9.0

10.0

hip [°]

Mean

75.3

103.2*

101.7*

110.9

115.9

124.0

108.0

113.0

 

SD

9.2

4.8

6.0

5.1

5.0

8.0

21.0

5.0

pelvis-lumbar [°]

Mean

23.8

27.4

25.7

     
 

SD

6.3

5.4

4.7

     

lumbar-thoracic [°]

Mean

0.9

2.3

5.0

     
  

SD

8.9

7.9

9.1

     

Min segmental flexion angle

pelvis-lumbar [°]

Mean

7.0

6.4

6.8

     
 

SD

3.1

2.2

2.3

     

lumbar-thoracic [°]

Mean

−8.1

−4.7

−3.2

     
 

SD

7.5

7.3

8.2

     

ROM segmental sagittal-plane rotations

knee [°]

Mean

7.8

103.4*

99.7*

     
 

SD

5.5

23.1

21.7

     

hip [°]

Mean

58.4

90.4*

89.1*

     
 

SD

10.0

5.3

5.9

     

pelvis-lumbar [°]

Mean

16.8

21.1

18.9

     
 

SD

4.7

4.3

3.5

     

lumbar-thoracic [°]

Mean

8.9

7.1

8.1

     
 

SD

3.8

2.8

3.5

     

ROM of the curvature of the spine

lumbar [1/m]

Mean

2.7

2.7

2.5

     
 

SD

1.3

1.2

0.9

     

thoracic [1/m]

Mean

0.9

0.6

0.6

     
 

SD

0.6

0.3

0.3

     
  1. *: significantly different from GM.