Importance of Shoulder Palpation Can you put 1 finger on the location of your pain? A question frequently used to identify the location of a patient’s pain. This can be a very helpful piece of information. From there, we typical move away from that location to screen out other possible tissues as we …
Pediatric Hip Stability Assessment Congenital hip dislocation (CHD) is a condition that can occur in utero. Another name for this condition is “developmental dysplasia of the hip.” Hip instability is one of the most common abnormality in newborns. Approximately 1 in 10 have hip instability. The pathogenesis has been identified to be caused …
Strategy to Palpate Carpal Bones Palpation can be challenging when the structures being identified are as small or smaller than your own fingertip. This is the case of the carpal bones. Palpation in such compact areas requires a thorough knowledge of the relationship of the structures. Palpation should be a performed in a …
Estimating 1-Repetition Maximum Effective rehabilitation requires appropriate dosing of therapeutic exercise. Dosing is traditionally based on 1-repetition maximum (1-RM) lifting. Achieving therapeutic goals are related to using the appropriate percentage of a given 1-RM. A Soviet sports scientist named A.S. Prilepin developed the Prilepin’s Chart …
Agility Testing Agility testing can be valuable in assessing function. It is often helpful to have pre-test information in case of athletes but that is not very likely to be available for most clients. The next best thing is normative values but there are a limited number of tests for which these are available. …