BASIC ASSESSMENT OF THE SHOULDER: ACTIVE RANGE OF MOTION It's never wrong to revise the basics! During AROM you are assessing, how many degrees of freedom the patient has in the shoulder complex. Additionally, you are looking for compensations and movement quality. If your patient is in a lot of pain or comes to your practice directly post-op, you rather want to choose for supine position instead of sitting. So what kind of pathologies could we use AROM assessment in the shoulder for? Let's look