circumduction

Introduction

Movement of a body part in a circular direction, especially an extremity, as in outward swing of leg in semicircle from hip

Etiology

• hemiplegia, hemiparesis
  • stroke

Clinical manifestations

• circumduction may be observed associated with
  • muscle weakness
  • spasticity
  • equinovarus
  • genu recurvatum

More general terms

• gait ataxia