Physiotherapy · Upper legs

Standing hip abduction

Target Glutes  ·  Equipment Body weight  ·  Level Beginner  ·  Reps 10

Standing hip abduction is a beginner-level physiotherapy movement targeting the glutes, written in Posecode, a small open-source language that capable language models can use to describe human movement as text. Authored joint targets and reach-IK solves are constrained to Posecode's configured per-axis bounds. Those bounds constrain the visualization, but they do not certify that a complete movement is safe or clinically correct. This page documents a code example; it is not exercise instruction.

Movement phases

Phase cues are display-only coaching text. The executable joint and contact directives in the source below determine the animation.

1. Lift1.6s · flow Lift the right leg out to the side, keep the torso tall
2. Lower1.6s · settle Lower the leg back to the midline

The .posecode source

This is the exact text used by the linked playground animation: phases and joint angles, not 3D transforms.

posecode exercise "Standing hip abduction"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

  step "Lift" 1.6s flow:
    hip_right: abduct 40
    pin: foot_left floor
    cue "Lift the right leg out to the side, keep the torso tall"

  step "Lower" 1.6s settle:
    hip_right: abduct 0
    ground-lock: foot_left
    reach: foot_right floor
    cue "Lower the leg back to the midline"

  repeat 10

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