end-feel

English

Alternative forms

• end feel, endfeel

Noun

end-feel (countable and uncountable, plural end-feels)

1. (medicine) The quality of resistance that occurs when a joint is at the end of its range of movement.
   • 2006, Leon Chaitow, Ken Crenshaw -, Muscle Energy Techniques, →ISBN, page 200:

     In essence this means having an awareness of what the normal range of movement and end-feel is for that joint.

   • 2010, Elaine Atkins, Jill Kerr, Emily Goodlad, A Practical Approach to Orthopaedic Medicine, →ISBN, page 19:

     There may be a range of end-feels within the 'elastic' group, but all are indicative of normal tissue tension, such as the 'leathery' end-feel of passive pronation and supination of the forearm, or the even tighter 'rubbery' end-feel of ankle plantarflexion and wrist flexion where the reistance to the movement is in part provided by the tendons spanning the joint.

   • 2013, Elly Hengeveld, Kevin Banks, Maitland's Vertebral Manipulation, →ISBN:

     The quality of the resistance from R1 to R2, the elastic zone, is then assessed as well as the end-feel to the movement.