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Circumduction

A circular, cone-shaped movement of a limb that combines flexion, extension, abduction and adduction.

Passive shoulder circles, where you move the client’s arm slowly in a circle, are circumduction. It is easiest at ball-and-socket joints such as the shoulder and hip.

Related

FlexionExtensionAbductionAdduction

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Anatomical terms of motion