Joint locking (medicine)

Not to be confused with Joint lock in martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.

In medicine, joint locking is a symptom of pathology in a joint. It is a complaint by a person when they are unable to fully flex or fully extend a joint.

This term is also used to describe the normal mechanism of lower limb joints held in full extension without much muscular effort when a person is standing.

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