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Question about resisted supination!

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Topic: Question about resisted supination!

Posted By: curiouspenguin1
Subject: Question about resisted supination!
Date Posted: Feb 20 2013 at 9:25pm

Some special tests call for resisted supination. Are there two ways to do this?

1) The patient supinates his arm and u resist that.

2) You pronate the patient's arm and tell him to resist u.

Are these the same thing?

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Posted By: Ask a PT
Date Posted: Feb 25 2013 at 11:12am

There are not two ways to do this. Instructions given to a patient for the formal manual muscle test of the supinators: "Turn your palm up toward the ceiling, and don't let me turn it back over." The patient is already in supination and resistance is applied into the direction of pronation. The patient resists pronation.

Posted By: curiouspenguin1
Date Posted: Feb 27 2013 at 10:48pm

Thank you for your help! Makes sense! I appreciate it!