Posture Flashcards
Surface Condition
-changes in texture, color, moisture, scars
Surface contours
- circumferential and segmental bands of soft tissue may suggest instability
- flattened/tight areas suggest muscle imbalances
Soft Tissue Proportions
-asymmetries between sides, over development vs atrophy may indicate structural and/or biomechanical differences
Sternal-Rib Angle
Normal: 90*
>100=tight IO, weak EO
<75=tight EO
Tight EO
- lead to post pelvic tilt and lumbar flexion
- fully flex arms and inhale: if no increase in Sternal-Rib angle=EO short
Clavicular Angle
- 15-20* upward (medial to lateral)
- AC joint higher than SC joint
Horizontal Clavicle
- depressed shoulder girdle
- long upper trap
Excessive Upward angle of Clavicle
- elevated shoulder girdle
- tight upper trap
SC Joint
-Even bilaterally
SAM Test
- Spinal Activated Manubrium Test
- Pt: seated, hands in lap
- PT: facing pt, looking up at manubrium; hands on upper trap with thumbs midway between manubrial notch and manubriosternal junction
- Procedure: pt look down and up while PT monitors for asymetrical movement
- Flexion: if manubrium rotates right=T1/2 or T2/3 facet on right doesn’t flex properly
- Extension: same as above but facet doesn’t extend properly
Finding T1
- C6 moves ant with extension
- C7 stable with extension
- T1 SP translates posterior with pressure on sternum
Acromioclavicular Joint
- Find: pull humerus caudally
- high AC=severe sprain
Increased pain with exhalation & decreased pain with inhalation
-consider thoracic disc lesion
Increased pain with inhalation
-consider rib pathology
Transverse Process “Finger Rule”–TS
- T1-2=one finger cranial to SP
- T3-4=two fingers cranial
- T5-8=three fingers cranial
- T9-10=two fingers cranial
- T11-12=one finger cranial
Olecranon Position
- faces posteriorly in neutral
- faces forward with full shoulder flexion
Scapular Downward Rotation
- inf angle of scap medial to upper portion
- Cause: rhomboids and levator scapulae are short and upper trap long
- serratus ant long