An Individual Who Is Unable to Achieve Full Active Knee

question 8

True/False

An individual who is unable to achieve full active knee extension but has full passive motion into extension has a flexion contracture.

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Definitions:

Sprained Ankle

An injury involving the stretching or tearing of ligaments around the ankle, often caused by twisting or rolling the foot.

Medical Diagnosis

A diagnosis that refers to disease processes—specific pathophysiological responses that are fairly uniform from one client to another.

Central Sensitization

Prolonged firing of nociceptors with severe and persistent injury, such as surgery, causes dorsal horn spinal cord neurons to become more responsive to all inputs.

Central Nervous System

The part of the nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord, responsible for processing and transmitting neural information.