As the elbow moves from 30 degrees of flexion (semi-straight) to 110 degrees (nearly completely flexed) the moment
arm length decreased in a linear fashion.
Not exact matches
Exam showed moderate bradykinesia on the left side and mild left hand action tremor with
decreased bilateral
arm swings,
decreased stride
length, difficulty with turns and postural instability.
The moment
arm length shows a linear
decrease from 60 degrees of pronation to 80 degrees of supination where is approaches 6 - 7 mm.
The moment
arm length remains relatively high throughout elbow extension and increases as elbow joint angle
decreases (as the
arm straightens).
Since it became clear that muscle size was related to internal moment
arm lengths, this naturally implies that hypertrophy might lead to increases in internal moment
arm length, and that atrophy might result in
decreases in internal moment
arm length.
Nevertheless, it seems that the moment
arm length of the triceps
decreases gradually in a linear fashion as elbow flexion increases.
They reported that the moment
arm length linearly increases between 120 degrees and between 80 — 60 degrees, where a shorter plateau is displayed, before a linear
decrease in moment
arm length as the shoulder moves towards 0 degrees of shoulder abduction.
Between 70 and 120 degrees of abduction the moment
arm length linearly
decreases before reaching a moment
arm length of -20.0 mm.
Between 75 and 120 degrees the moment
arm length appears to
decrease linearly until reaching approximately -15.0 mm at 120 degrees of abduction (
arms overhead).
Between 35 and 0 degrees the moment
arm length appears to
decrease linearly until reaching approximately 12.0 mm at 0 degrees of flexion.
Németh & Ohlsén (1984) performed a study of 10 cadavers and 20 live subjects, and reported that the hip extension moment
arm length of the gluteus maximus moment
arm of gluteus maximus
decreased substantially from around 8 cm to 3 cm with increasing hip flexion angle, making the gluteus maximus far more effective as a hip extensor in full hip extension, than in full hip flexion.
Thus, like a spinning iceskater pulling in her
arms, rotation speeds up and the
length of the day
decreases.