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Table 1 Minimum Active and Passive Range of Motion (ROM) required for participation

From: Video Game Rehabilitation for Outpatient Stroke (VIGoROUS): protocol for a multi-center comparative effectiveness trial of in-home gamified constraint-induced movement therapy for rehabilitation of chronic upper extremity hemiparesis

 

Shoulder

Elbow

Wrist

Fingers

Thumb

Minimum passive ROM

Flexion ≥90°

Abduction ≥90°

External rotation ≥45°

Extension to ≥150°

Extension ≥0°

Forearm supination/pronation ≥45°

MCP extension to ≥145°

Extension or abduction of thumb ≥10°

Minimum active ROM

Flexion ≥45° and

Abduction ≥45°

Extension ≥20°

from a 90° flexed

starting position

Extension ≥10°

from fully flexed

starting position

Extension MCP and (PIP or DIP) joints of at least 2 fingers ≥10°

Extension or abduction of thumb ≥10°

  1. MCP metacarpophalangeal, PIP proximal interphalangeal, DIP distal interphalangeal