Egyptian Self-Mobs

  • The patient is lying on their back with their legs straight and their arms straight out to the sides with their elbows bent to a right angle.
  • Instruct the patient to bring the palm of one hand towards the floor while the back of the other hand reaches back to touch the floor. As the arms are rotating tell the patient to turn their head to face the palm that is facing up toward the ceiling.
  • Instruct the patient to reverse directions with their arms and head rotation so that their eyes always look towards the palm that is turned up facing the ceiling.
  • The patient repeats this alternating rotation of their arms and head 8 to 10 times.
  • Tell the patient not to force their neck to turn any further than is comfortable, but that they can push further rotation thru their arms to increase the rotation of the neck.
  • Make sure that the patient maintains 90 degrees of shoulder abduction and 90 degrees of elbow flexion throughout the exercise.
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