title: Trend of the carrying angle during flexion-extension of the elbow joint: a pilot study.
abstract: This study evaluated the variability of the carrying angle during flexion-extension of the elbow and defined a description of the movement applicable in sport and rehabilitation.The arm and forearm of 7 healthy volunteers were marked and the coordinates were acquired during motion using 6 infrared cameras. Five repeated measures were performed for each volunteer to verify the reliability.Our results demonstrated that this movement can be easily modeled as a linear variation of the carrying angle in function of the flexion angle.The reliability between repeated measures was high and adopting a linear fit the accuracy was >94%.
authors.affiliation: Biomechanics Laboratory, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: Maria L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Zampagni
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Casino
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zaffagnini
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Visani
authors.forename: Maurilio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marcacci
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004551:Elbow Joint / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D010865:Pilot Projects; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular / Q000502:physiology*; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012399:Rotation; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity