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Ober signOber test
(for hip contracture) the patient lies on the side opposite that to be tested, with the underneath hip and knee flexed; with the upper knee flexed
to a right angle, the upper hip is flexed to 90 degrees, fully abducted, brought into full hyperextension, and allowed to
adduct; the angle that the thigh makes above the horizontal is the degree of abduction contracture.

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