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shoulder strength test position - thanks

Posted: Jan 20, 2014

"his strength is 3-4+/5+ in the *sis* position as well as in abduction. His passive glenohumeral range of motion is 80-20-10." It sounds like he is saying "cyst", but that doesn't make sense to me.

Maybe Sit? - see msg

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I'm wondering if he had a slip of the tongue and is saying "sit" position. It may sound like cyst because he put an "s" sound in there, then realized it should have been a "t" sound.

shoulder strength - typinbabe84

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I have done a lot of orthopedic transcription and this doesn't sound familiar. It could be sit or 6th (never heard of the 6th position). Just wanted to chime in on typing 3-4+/5+. I think that typing it like that makes it unclear if it is 3- to 4+/5+ or 3 to 4+/5, so I would type it has 3/5+ to 4+/5. Just my opinion.

I was going to suggest - The 3 to---

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I'm the poster who suggested sit as well. I really wanted to suggest as you did about the way you transcribe it, or to use 3 to 4+, so there's no hyphen/minus sign confusion. I hesitated, because some people don't take suggestion well. And maybe her account requires it the way she typed it.

But I totally agree that the reader could easily misinterpret.

try this link,, - tryintobehelpful

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Take a look at this link, maybe you will find what you are looking for.

http://www.shoulderdoc.co.uk/article.asp?section=497

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