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external rotation

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external rotation,
turning outwardly or away from the midline of the body, such as when a leg is externally rotated with the toes turned outward or away from the body's midline.

external rotation
Lateral rotation Biomechanics The act of turning about an axis passing through the center of the leg; ER of the leg occurs with closed chain supination; the talus acts as an extension of the leg in frontal and transverse planes


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Cyriax (10) suggested that tightness in a joint capsule would result in a pattern of proportional motion restriction (a shoulder capsular pattern in which external rotation would be more limited than abduction, which would be more limited than internal rotation).
Jaffe agrees: "I doubt if external rotation in a finely trained dancer would cause a problem.
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