00:00Rob Shapiro from Technique Peak. So you're going to look at testing of the thoracic extensor muscles.
00:06Again, remember who the patient is. It's not your acute irritable patient. It's your patient who has
00:10maybe subacute or chronic getting towards the end of rehab, and you really want to test strength.
00:14So what we're going to do is, in order to test the upper thoracic extensors, you have the patient put
00:19their hand behind their head, turn their head to the same side, and you're going to have them do is
00:23look up in that way. I'm going to cross stabilize here, hold that there to only push you down.
00:29Good, and just get the muscles through here. If you want to do the other side, and typically this I
00:34would probably, you can do it, yeah, I would go to the other side, but we could do it just
00:37to show you.
00:38Come up, look over your shoulder, hold, and maintain that position. Hold, and come back down. One of the
00:44keys when you do this, I'm going to do it one more time, is don't just push straight down, but
00:48you're
00:48trying to, the motion is down and around. So you're trying to push them that way, not just that way.
00:54So it's kind of, I'm pushing this, if it, my hand slid, it would be like this, but it's that
00:58motion,
00:59hold it, and come back down. So he's doing really well with that. So he has good, good strength in
01:04the thoracic extensors. All right, so the really good way to kind of help, and you could use this
01:09as a technique for patients. Again, if you watch out, if there's an irritable, you don't want to do
01:14this type of technique. Rob Shapiro from Technique Peak.
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